Morgan Freeman Quotes

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

Morgan Freeman

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• Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.

  

  Ma Jian
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• NRDC has helped bring hope spots to more of our shared ocean waters. We helped draft and pass a California law creating a network of underwater parks stretching from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.

  

  Frances Beinecke
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• My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • Life
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• We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.

  

  Victoria Osteen
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• I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.

  

  Gary Wright
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  • Band
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• 'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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  • Time
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• 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
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• I don't worry about chemicals. There are enough chemicals entering my body through all the fizzy drinks I consume to worry if my lip balm is 100 per cent organic.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Worry
  • Body
  • Enough

• In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Work
  • Business
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• I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Years
  • First
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• I experienced firsthand what it means to be poor, what it means to go hungry, and that, I think, may be the reason, the root cause of why I'm able to work so hard, even these days.

  

  Rain
  • Work
  • Why
  • May

• Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Man

• I like having a good time. It's probably my mother's Brazilian genes in me - party, party.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Mother

• I always root for the defense.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Always
  • Defense
  • Root

• Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Good
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• Contrary to the rumours that you've heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-El, to save the planet Earth.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Father
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• To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Beautiful
  • Reading
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• What else will you have? Nice banana and bacon sandwich?

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Nice

• My own notion is that it is very unsportsmanlike ever to mention fraud. Accept anything. Then explain it your way. Anything that assimilates with one explanation, must have assimilable relations, to some degree, with all other explanations, if all explanations are somewhere continuous.

  

  Charles Fort

• The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
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• I loved school. But when I started 'Party of Five' in the fifth grade, I was taken out of school and tutored on the set.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • School
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• The funny thing as an actor is that you show up on the set, and your key goal really is to make the scenes that you're involved in honest and real. You're not concerned with the technical aspect of things, and then you sit in the movie theater, and you watch it with everyone else, you realize that, 'Man, this is pretty exciting.'

  

  Benjamin Bratt
  • Up
  • Real
  • Movie

• I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Life
  • Living
  • Boring