Morgan Freeman Quotes
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I don't know if I would say that I'm specifically a history buff. I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially anything that's bizarre or mysterious and unknown and we don't have all the answers for.
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I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.
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However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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I rode horses since I was a kid.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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I think the process is one of using the camera and sound in the way a detective uses a magnifying glass: to find the clues. They're discovery devices, not performance devices - you're watching things the way a cat does. You're not judging. You're there to witness something.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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I'm addicted to making music, but I don't want to do it forever. I just want a farm. Farms make you happy.
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There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.
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I've never been strong with my time-management skills.
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How the snow falls in the north! Flake on flake falling incessantly, until the small dingles are almost on a level with the uplands. It throws itself on the leaves of autumn, and holds them down in security from the strongest winds.
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I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball.
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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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Never must the existence or the essence of man as a whole be made a stake in the hazards of action.
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To understand why dictators fall, it helps to recognise factors that produce a perfect anti-dictatorial storm. Barring missteps such as those that led to Gaddafi's undoing, a dictator's survival can be at risk because of newness in office, poor health, or old age combined with economic trouble.
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The sights and sounds and smells, the whole genre of Westerns - I love them.
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You know how trends go with television. Next year, the networks might not be open to taking risks.
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People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'
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People in Israel would write in a high register, they wouldn't write colloquial speech. I do a special take on colloquial speech. When I started writing, I thought [the language] was telling the story of this country: old people in a young nation, very religious, very conservative, very tight-assed, but also very anarchistic, very open-minded. It's all in the language, and that's one thing that doesn't translate.
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People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.
