Morgan Freeman Quotes

We humans are more concerned with having than with being.

Morgan Freeman

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• A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Hero
  • Brave

• The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

  

  Karl Marx
  • May
  • History
  • Movement

• It's true that youth is wasted on the young and, if I had my life to live over again, I suppose I would pay more attention to my career. I would make better choices. But, in my defence, I would say that I have three wonderful children, and that's something I am very proud of.

  

  Olivia Hussey
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• Love should be an inspiration, not an obligation.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Love
  • Inspiration
  • Obligation

• Since FDR's New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to get tax breaks, deregulation and entitlements from the government.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Stop
  • Government
  • Tax

• Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Sound
  • Move
  • Cube

• Many of the best firms historically in venture capital have been multi-sector.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Best
  • Many
  • Venture

• If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Up
  • Want
  • Study

• I am not a hereditary politician and do not have any substantial asset.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Politician
  • Asset

• In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• I remember when 'The Right Stuff' opened in Hollywood. I got dressed that morning and drove my car down to the theatre that it was playing on, thinking that there would be mobs of people outside. When I looked, there was nobody there.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.

  

  Beck
  • First
  • Generation
  • Kid

• I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Myself

• I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Hate
  • Decision
  • Confused

• For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Enjoy
  • Story
  • Part

• I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Night
  • Rock
  • Road

• Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Like
  • Down
  • Someone

• I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Life
  • Character
  • Rest

• People forget that I was married. I love that, Will he get married? I don't talk about it because I don't think about it. I don't ever question other peoples' versions of how they live their lives or what they do.

  

  George Clooney
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Married

• I say at the very end of "Winter Journal" that I do dream about my father often. I think I have a tremendous compassion for him, which has grown over the years. A certain kind of pity for him also in that he was so unrealised as a human being, so dogged, and so shut-off from people in many ways. You know, I've been writing another book, and it's another non-fiction autobiographical work, kind of a compliment to "Winter Journal", and it's just finished.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Father

• I never thought of being disadvantaged.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Being

• The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand and protect nature's precarious balance, let alone the balance of our own human nature.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Balance
  • Humans
  • Distance

• We have raised an issue that is already in the Bolivian constitution, that water is a universal human right. And we asked the United Nations to recognize water as a human right.

  

  Evo Morales
  • Water
  • Humans
  • Constitution

• We humans are more concerned with having than with being.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Humans
  • Being
  • Having