Morgan Freeman Quotes

The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a happy irony if there is such a thing. I'm proud to have known him.

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• When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Team
  • Worry
  • Learn

• Never eat spinach just before going on the air.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Never
  • Air
  • Before

• I think we're going to have some difficulty in front of us. I have absolutely no doubt the next three, four years Europe are going to be at best stagnation. We are preparing for tough times.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Best
  • Doubt
  • Tough

• It would be wrong to say that the city of Berlin is not regulated. What I think is more interesting is to what extent a city creates a sort of safe haven for its users, so that people feel confident that the city works on their behalf.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • People
  • Think
  • Interesting

• I bought an espresso maker and coffee maker and make them myself every day.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Day
  • Myself
  • Coffee

• If you're confident, then it helps you live up to your potential, but if you believe because you went to a certain school it means you're entitled to have a particular career, you'll fall flat on your face eventually.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Live

• Kadar died as a mass killer, and the Hungarian nation can't forget that.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Forget
  • Nation
  • Hungarian

• Vegas is like the old definition of writing: though I don't enjoy writing, I love having written. Though I didn't enjoy Vegas, I love having lived there.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Enjoy

• Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Beginning
  • Animal
  • Behavior

• Long hours of labour seem to be the secret of the rational and healthful processes, which are to raise the condition of the labourer by an improvement of his mental and moral powers and to make a rational consumer out of him.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Long
  • Moral
  • Improvement

• The essence of my work, and of me, is the softer side of a strong woman, and that goes into a number of different roles.

  

  Dee Wallace
  • Work
  • Different
  • Strong

• I never know what I want, but always know what I don't want.

  

  Louise Wilson

• No matter how many feminist tracts you read, you never forget what boys like.

  

  Jami Attenberg
  • Feminist

• I mean that what makes me a professional, but the market itself has been fabulous during this whole period and I've got to give the market credit before I give myself credit.

  

  Jim Cramer
  • Period
  • Professional

• For weeks after 9/11 you could smell the dust and pulverised concrete in New York, and the National Guard came in, so there was a military presence on the streets. It was intense. Overwhelming. Heartbreaking.

  

  Mark Boal
  • Military

• It takes 300 years, it seems, for the great bands to get their due.

  

  Clea Duvall
  • Great

• Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.

  

  Peter Drucker
  • Commitment

• Every employee at Workday thinks about how they are going to help customers be successful. It is a simple formula, but a lot of companies go out, and they don't listen to their customers; they don't try to solve hard problems, making it tougher for themselves to create a great business.

  

  Aneel Bhusri
  • Great
  • Business
  • Help

• My personal view is always I'm in favour of anything that gives parliament a greater say. That's after all what we were elected for.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Always
  • Say
  • View

• It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.

  

  Aristotle
  • Person
  • Possession
  • Tyranny

• The sage acts by doing nothing.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Doing
  • Acts
  • Sage

• When Captain America is in a room full of Marvel superheroes, he is always Top Dog, even though his powers are pretty modest. He could be stood next to Thor, Iron Man, whoever. He is the one that everyone looks up to. To me, that is Superman, too. Even de-powered in the Legion arc, he was still Superman. Still Top Dog.

  

  Gary Frank
  • Up
  • America
  • Pretty

• The police officer who puts their life on the line with no superpowers, no X-Ray vision, no super-strength, no ability to fly, and above all no invulnerability to bullets, reveals far greater virtue than Superman - who is only a mere superhero.

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • Life
  • Vision
  • Police

• The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a happy irony if there is such a thing. I'm proud to have known him.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Superman
  • Accident
  • Chris