Morgan Freeman Quotes
If you look back on your life and where you started from it's like looking back down a mountain back to the desert floor. It's like now I can't believe I had whatever it takes or perceived whatever it took to get here.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
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I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
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I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
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Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
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I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
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But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.
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I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.
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I'm not really frightened by experimenting - that's the main thing. I really like mixing very old beautiful pieces that are from thrift shops or that have some historical value with quite new futuristic things.
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I refuse to dress 'hot' for Halloween, 'cause I always have to have makeup and hair and look cute for my job. So on Halloween, I either go gory or weird or funny.
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For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.
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I've been doing a lot of drama, but I feel like comedy is my strength.
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You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.
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We don't consider black, urban films as 'indies,' though many of them are shot for under $10 million which is kind of the definition of an indie.
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Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.
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That is the job of a comedian: To take unpleasant subject matter and forcibly, with his hands, wring the funny out of it.
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The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.
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My parents are more likely to know who Franz Liszt is than Snooki.
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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.
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Whenever I'm in need of inspiration and mantras, I go straight to simple affirmations. 'I am strong', 'I am brave', 'I can do this' and 'I'm awesome'. Whatever you put after 'I am', you will become. 'I am' are the two most powerful words, so make sure what you say after 'I am' is what you want to experience. It's like a magic trick.
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If you look back on your life and where you started from it's like looking back down a mountain back to the desert floor. It's like now I can't believe I had whatever it takes or perceived whatever it took to get here.
