Morgan Freeman Quotes
If your life turns out to be good and you have a tremendous amount of luck in your life, it's a good thing to turn around and make it work for others.
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I'm known for having crazy shoes. I have a total Napoleon complex - I'm only 5'4", and every heel I have is four inches or more.
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For me, songwriting starts with a melody. When a musician plays a chord progression, either the words and vocal melody come to me, or they don't. That's how I determine who to write with. It works, or it doesn't.
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The harder you work, the luckier you get.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
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Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
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I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.
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I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based.
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I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.
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People say, 'Do you ever miss being a normal teenager?'
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I do everything I can to have a diverse career because I just want to have options. I know that I can do Hamlet or I can do Stanley Kowalski, you know.
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Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.
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I'm not actually posh; I'm really rough and from the wrong side of the tracks. I grew up in Putney, which is pretty rough.
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In 1987 I got dartitis, a psychological condition which means you can't let your darts go properly. For a time, I wondered what the hell I was going to do if I didn't recover. But I remained positive and, thankfully, got over it. It occurred during the Swedish Open when I found I couldn't let the darts go.
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Mr. [John] Barrymore's smile was the smile of an actor who hates actors, and who knows that he is going to kill two or three before the play is over. I am not an actor-killer, but I like my Hamlets to dislike actors, if you know what I mean, and I think you don't.
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I am sorry that my convictions do not allow me to repeat my friend’s offer, said one of the others. But I have had to abandon the humanitarian and egalitarian fancies. His name was Mr. Neo-Classical.
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A sympathetic parent might see the spark of consciousness in a baby's large eyes and eagerly accept the popular claim that babies are wonderful learners, but it is hard to avoid the impression that they begin as ignorant as bread loaves.
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You can have very big local government. By big, I mean very engaged government. Do you measure it in terms of the number of laws? Number of employees? You could make arguments for either one. I tend to think the axis of the size of government is the wrong concern. But I do think that situating power more locally is a legitimate approach.
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If your life turns out to be good and you have a tremendous amount of luck in your life, it's a good thing to turn around and make it work for others.
