Morgan Freeman Quotes
My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston.
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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
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Naturalization is the process by which a citizen, or subject of a foreign nation or kingdom, is made a citizen of the United States. It is evident that the Constitutional Convention thought that it was important that this process should be placed under the exclusive control of the Federal Government and not of the States.
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Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
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I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?
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When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.
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Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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I do get recognized, more and more every day.
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'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.
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People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and more.
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We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.
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If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.
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However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.
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All I want to do is be the best attorney general that I can be.
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I can't imagine not playing Wynonna, because I get to play so many different things. In any given episode, I get drama and comedy and horror and all the notes of life, and very few shows or movies give you that opportunity.
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Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.
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I love everything from The Rolling Stones to Run-DMC to Nina Simone.
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Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives.
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My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston.
