Morgan Freeman Quotes
There's an exercise we do where someone is sat behind you and you're asked to close your eyes and fall backwards. That's acting.
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You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.
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I'd love to see more middle and high school teachers who are not teaching English develop classroom libraries. Our message to kids should be that reading is for everyone.
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Being a celebrity, I don't even have to talk.
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I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
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I do love getting dressed up, but sometimes it's glam and edgy mixed together.
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I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and off.
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
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The best players I have seen and known have confidence in their teammates. They know that basketball's not a one-man game. That confidence brings out the best in everybody, because it's contagious.
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I've always danced. I've always been around it.
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Donatella Versace has been a renegade. Just an incredible, artistic person.
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My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
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You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last.
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Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.
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Opportunity knocks at every man's door once. On some men's door it hammers till it breaks down the door and then it goes in and wakes him up if he's asleep, and ever afterward it works for him as a night watchman.
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The stuffs you're good at and the stuffs you're bad at are just different parts of the same thing. Same goes for people you love and the people you don't. And the people who love you and the people who don't. The only thing that mattered was that you cared about a few people.
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Give a smile to everyone you meet (smile with your eyes) - and you’ll smile and receive smiles...
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I was too busy looking into Yeltsin's eyes to notice what was under the table.
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Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love.
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There's an exercise we do where someone is sat behind you and you're asked to close your eyes and fall backwards. That's acting.
