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.

Morgan Freeman

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• Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Moral
  • Courage
  • Animal

• I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Remember
  • Think
  • Name

• It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Great
  • Think
  • Me

• I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Work
  • Fit

• You get steely nerves playing poker.

  

  Nate Silver
  • You
  • Playing
  • Poker

• Clearly, humans will always have a role to play in emergency response for law enforcement. But if there's an emergency, if there's a 911 call, the question is, do you want a human dashing off to respond to it right away?

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Law
  • Question
  • Play

• A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.

  

  Van Morrison
  • People
  • Writing
  • Through

• Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Political
  • Faith
  • Religious

• I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Cute
  • Only
  • Revolutionary

• I get really excited about other female acts. I feel inspired when I see another women succeeding in music because it makes me realize that if they can do it, I can do it.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • Women
  • Feel

• I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • World
  • Wish
  • Dreams

• The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Great
  • Player
  • Defeat

• Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • World
  • Great
  • Art

• Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Children
  • Future
  • Responsibility

• 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.

  

  L.A. Reid
  • Life
  • Good
  • Goal

• 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.

  

  Eddie Bracken
  • Work
  • Stage
  • Excitement

• My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed.

  

  Ian Hart
  • Good
  • Work
  • Famous

• 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.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Time
  • World
  • Support

• Postmodernism cost literature its audience.

  

  Scott Turow
  • Literature
  • Audience
  • Postmodernism

• I always find that 90% of the performance, for me, is about what comes from inside.

  

  Eric Bana

• Music is a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred; no difference of age or season; no temper of mind or condition of health exempt from present anguish; nor, lastly, distinction of quality, renders either improper, untimely, or unentertaining.

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • Life
  • Music
  • Mind

• Whatever else he was during his life, he was never dull, and the world forgives almost anything but stupidity.

  

  Clarence Darrow
  • Life
  • World

• We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.

  

  Arthur Peacocke
  • Life

• 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.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Life
  • Mountain
  • Desert floor