Morgan Freeman Quotes

I always wanted to be a fireman, a cop, an Indian chief, a doctor, a lawyer. I always wanted to be all these things, so I am drawn to these kinds of characters.

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• We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Peace
  • Religion
  • Harmony

• Generally, what adults want to know is my background, why I write what I write, and very personal insights that some say are inspiring.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Why
  • Want
  • Know

• I have the sensation of doing something good for people, more than being a trendy artist or a successful artist.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • People
  • Good
  • Successful

• There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • House
  • To Do
  • Corner

• Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Hand
  • Sound
  • Stone

• One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Hate

• No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Me
  • Stars
  • Sorry

• If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Purpose
  • Face

• Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Nature
  • Think
  • Content

• I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Art
  • American
  • Beautiful

• Actually, when I was in elementary school, I saw a saxophone. A band came to my school, and I saw this guy get up and play this solo. And I said, 'Oh man, what is that! That must be fantastic!'

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Up
  • School
  • Guy

• If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • You
  • Never
  • Elephant

• I, personally, do not consider myself to be some kind of Holy Mary of feminism.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Kind
  • Myself
  • Feminism

• My mother taught me to drive using the 'Detroit Method,' where speed limits and traffic lights are taken as cute suggestions.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Mother
  • Taken
  • Cute

• Until he announced his immigration policy last week, Obama had the support of most Hispanic voters - but not the enthusiasm they had shown for him in 2008. That may be changing in part because of the decision not to deport young immigrants whose undocumented parents brought them here as children.

  

  Mara Liasson
  • Children
  • May
  • Parents

• I've found just the right amount of balance in my life. I'm this pop artist in America, but I'm also Malaysian. And I'm also Muslim.

  

  Yuna
  • Life
  • America
  • Balance

• The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • World
  • Important
  • Friends

• I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Out
  • Throw
  • Quickly

• I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.

  

  Florence King
  • Home
  • Rather
  • My Own

• Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Tough
  • Islam
  • Original

• 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.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Words
  • Struggle
  • Start

• On Earth, God has placed no more than two powers, and as there is in Heaven but one God, so is there here one Pope and one Emperor. Divine providence has specially appointed the Roman Empire to prevent the continuance of schism in the Church.

  

  Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
  • Powers
  • Providence
  • Empire

• Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families. The Amor Patriae love of ones country is both a moral duty and a religious duty. It comprehends not only the love of our neighbors but of millions of our fellow creatures, not only of the present but of future generations. This virtue we find constitutes a part of the first characters of history.

  

  Benjamin Rush
  • History
  • Justice
  • Characters

• I always wanted to be a fireman, a cop, an Indian chief, a doctor, a lawyer. I always wanted to be all these things, so I am drawn to these kinds of characters.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Characters
  • Doctor
  • Cop