Morgan Freeman quote: "Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive."

The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.
MORGAN FREEMAN

And some places you been before are so great that you don't ever mind going back. Some places yo...
MORGAN FREEMAN

I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black m...
MORGAN FREEMAN

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see ...
MORGAN FREEMAN

Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, ...
MORGAN FREEMAN

Let me tell you about being executive producer. It is not a job, it's a title. Don't go arou...
MORGAN FREEMAN

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance...
MORGAN FREEMAN

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that d...
MORGAN FREEMAN

The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Supe...
MORGAN FREEMAN

I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the...
MORGAN FREEMAN

People hear that and say I'm being modest, but I am not a modest person, but I have to be truthf...
MORGAN FREEMAN

My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time...
MORGAN FREEMAN

Just that working with Clint again is like coming home.
MORGAN FREEMAN

I do know there are a lot of people who seem to be in my corner, and that's, of course, wonderfu...
MORGAN FREEMAN

Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup...
MORGAN FREEMAN

It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget...
MORGAN FREEMAN

I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy.
MORGAN FREEMAN

Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck....
MORGAN FREEMAN

Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. W...
MORGAN FREEMAN

Black history is American history.
MORGAN FREEMAN

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.
MORGAN FREEMAN

I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you...
MORGAN FREEMAN

I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, ...
MORGAN FREEMAN

Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.
MORGAN FREEMAN

I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predes...
MORGAN FREEMAN

Getting a standing ovation was kind of humbling that so many people are so happy that I have been na...
MORGAN FREEMAN

I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestina...
MORGAN FREEMAN

In my country, we talk to our women, not drug them with plants.
MORGAN FREEMAN

We are all part of American history. Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American h...
MORGAN FREEMAN

Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would stil...
MORGAN FREEMAN

Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something m...
MORGAN FREEMAN

Ben - Sir Ben - is always a lift. He's always interesting to watch, so you just try and remember you...
MORGAN FREEMAN

It is not so much that people are frustrated (with studios)...They see opportunities.
MORGAN FREEMAN

I want to thank everybody and anybody who ever had anything to do with the making of this picture.
MORGAN FREEMAN

Broadband distribution of movies is no longer an idea - it's a reality.
MORGAN FREEMAN

You're going to relegate my history to a month.
MORGAN FREEMAN

Life doesn't offer you promises whatsoever so it's very easy to become, 'Whatever happened to...?' I...
MORGAN FREEMAN

In the harshest place on Earth, ... love finds a way.
MORGAN FREEMAN

[Man] is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he h...
MORGAN FREEMAN

I do know there are a lot of people who seem to be in my corner, and that's, of course, wonderful, ....
MORGAN FREEMAN

Strange country, this...England.
MORGAN FREEMAN

I gravitate towards gravitas.
MORGAN FREEMAN

I'm not intimidated by lead roles. I'm better in them. I don't feel pressure. I feel rel...
MORGAN FREEMAN

It's sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count o...
MORGAN FREEMAN

[On Clint Eastwood, best director:]
If he hires you, he hires you because he feels like you kno...
MORGAN FREEMAN

[On a double win for black actors:]
It means that Hollywood is continuing to make history. We'r...
MORGAN FREEMAN

I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright...
MORGAN FREEMAN

I'm not one for blaspheming -- but that one made me laugh.
MORGAN FREEMAN

This kid came up with Napster, and before that, none of us thought of content protection.
MORGAN FREEMAN

Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.
MORGAN FREEMAN

I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.
MORGAN FREEMAN

I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well...
MORGAN FREEMAN

[On Clint Eastwood, best director:] If he hires you, he hires you because he feels like you know wha...
MORGAN FREEMAN

You whine like a mule.
MORGAN FREEMAN

Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.
MORGAN FREEMAN

And finding the hat, I always like to find the hat. And then props just dress the set. It's all ...
MORGAN FREEMAN

Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, ...
MORGAN FREEMAN

It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that'...
MORGAN FREEMAN

Not only do I have to live, right, I have to get some cash for my troubles - it's a scary thing,...
MORGAN FREEMAN

My idea of a good night out is staying in.
MARTIN FREEMAN

The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is...
FREEMAN DYSON

Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce...
FREEMAN DYSON

Leading off an inning you never know, I could get a bunt base hit and start a rally.
FREDDIE FREEMAN

The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap ...
FREEMAN DYSON

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you thi...
FREEMAN DYSON

So when we need to do maintenance, we aren't digging up a meadow.
ADRIENNE FREEMAN

I've read about the budget and the need for matching funds. I would be willing to see the money bett...
ADRIENNE FREEMAN

On the valley floor, it's probably compacted about six inches and that's fairly significant.
ADRIENNE FREEMAN

I think people enjoy the cooler temperatures. I think people especially from the area should really ...
ADRIENNE FREEMAN

Late March through April and early May are definitely among the most variable months. That's one of ...
ADRIENNE FREEMAN

We have had a great deal of precipitation, but the variable warming and cooling trends has made it s...
ADRIENNE FREEMAN

It was the coldest recorded temperatures in the park this season.
ADRIENNE FREEMAN

Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.
ROBERT FREEMAN

It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.
FREEMAN DYSON

The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we...
FREEMAN DYSON

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humo...
FREEMAN DYSON

If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wis...
FREEMAN DYSON

There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
FREEMAN DYSON

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good e...
FREEMAN DYSON

I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics which was so enormo...
FREEMAN DYSON

A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad...
FREEMAN DYSON

Quotations help us remember the simple yet profound truths that give life perspective and meaning. W...
CHRISWELL FREEMAN

I don't like affectation.
MARTIN FREEMAN

I'm not particularly affable in real life, I have to tell you. I've got that side to me, of ...
MARTIN FREEMAN

I am a fan of the Coen brothers. I'm not a fanatic. I'm a big admirer. They create unique wo...
MARTIN FREEMAN

Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are th...
FREEMAN DYSON

Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay and Al Pacino made me want to act. I've always been interested in m...
MARTIN FREEMAN

Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factorie...
FREEMAN DYSON

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting yo...
FREEMAN THOMAS

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design tha...
FREEMAN DYSON

I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer indust...
FREEMAN DYSON

The biologists have essentially been pushed aside. Al Gore's just an opportunist. The person who...
FREEMAN DYSON

It's just so much fun to relax and just play baseball for a living. It's a great time in my ...
FREDDIE FREEMAN

I don't want to sound like a grumpy old man, but nothing winds me up more than people saying, &#...
MARTIN FREEMAN

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. I...
FREEMAN DYSON

I would wear a full-length cape if I could get away with it - I do love a good swirl in a fog.
MARTIN FREEMAN

Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he en...
FREEMAN DYSON

People could see in me who I am now, an Olympic champ, the best in the world.
CATHY FREEMAN

What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity whe...
FREEMAN DYSON

To my mind there are not enough things that show the Nazis as human, as smart people, charismatic pe...
MARTIN FREEMAN

The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered.
FREEMAN DYSON

he didn't have to die like that.
ANN FREEMAN

I don't know how much I'm going to find out. I don't know how much of the truth will be told.
ANN FREEMAN

He was a good guy in the wrong place, ... with a problem.
ANN FREEMAN

There is no sound for a moment, no breathing. And then a muffled scream, like she has pressed someth...
ANN FREEMAN

I've been battling with these guys for five seasons, ... I know the intangibles of going against the...
ARTURO FREEMAN

That's the first thing a lot of people say. They mention winning the game last year against these gu...
ARTURO FREEMAN

I've been battling with these guys for five seasons. I know the intangibles of going against them. W...
ARTURO FREEMAN

If you can't beat them over the years, ... you might as well join them.
ARTURO FREEMAN

Our internal polling has been showing that we're up by 20 points.
ALLEN FREEMAN

That's silly. Anybody who has ever been to a Republican convention knows things on the floor are hig...
ALLEN FREEMAN

You're having a conversation with people, and you feel they have told you something and you have the...
ALLEN FREEMAN

Some of the main organizers of this were McEwen people, so I'm not surprised that they were able to ...
ALLEN FREEMAN

Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes.
FREEMAN DYSON

Obviously, being a first baseman, you're kind of expected to hit some home runs. Obviously, that...
FREDDIE FREEMAN

When I'm in a bad mood, I don't listen.
CATHY FREEMAN

I did a play once where a reviewer said, 'Martin Freeman's too nice to play a bad guy.' ...
MARTIN FREEMAN

I'm a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to.
MARTIN FREEMAN

I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few d...
MARTIN FREEMAN

Half of us are partly German! Half our language and culture, generally, in Anglo-Saxon terms, is Ger...
MARTIN FREEMAN

The best of American television is thought-provoking, original, brilliant, exciting - from 'The ...
MARTIN FREEMAN

This is very, very competitive. Three-quarters of the kids that play here end up with a full-ride sc...
BRUCE FREEMAN

And it was around in the 1960s and 1970s as a recreational drug, too. The song 'Mother's Little Help...
BRUCE FREEMAN

The DEA will hire contractors to come and properly dispose of the chemicals, but they don't take out...
BRUCE FREEMAN

It would be prohibitively expensive to sample all of the soil and water surrounding a lab just to id...
BRUCE FREEMAN

With superheroes and comics and fantasy and sci-fi being absolutely the popular currency in cinema, ...
MARTIN FREEMAN

I've always got my eye on my deathbed.
MARTIN FREEMAN

It used to be a series of shows like 'St. Elsewhere,' 'L.A. Law' and 'Twin Peaks'
BRADLEY FREEMAN

It caught me a little bit off guard, ... At first, I lost my memory for a moment, that music had a m...
BRADLEY FREEMAN

I hope we don't move.
BRADLEY FREEMAN

It's inspired extreme loyalty. It's Americana; it's part of our culture.
BRADLEY FREEMAN

I was very happy to get Margo back. And her two singles showed how much we've missed her.
BILL FREEMAN

It was absolutely a proper thing to do.
BILL FREEMAN

The plasmapheresis is something I wouldn't wish on anyone,
BILL FREEMAN

Now I have a new lease on life. I have a new kidney, ... I always say I carry a part of my wife arou...
BILL FREEMAN

I think it's just pride in the United States, period,
BILL FREEMAN

Just patriotism, ... No matter what went down, we were supporting our own nation and land.
BILL FREEMAN

We're sharing a poll, not sharing an election, ... It's our first attempt in stopping all this every...
BILL FREEMAN

If gas stays at $3 per gallon, I know a lot of officials just won't go.
BILL FREEMAN

The wheels came off the cart in the sixth and seventh innings.
BILL FREEMAN

Kendra was a trooper. Her shoulder and elbow began bothering her during the early stages of the seco...
BILL FREEMAN

'The Hobbit' would have been very difficult to pass on, do you know what I mean? It's no...
MARTIN FREEMAN

Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.
FREEMAN DYSON

The world of science and the world of literature have much in common. Each is an international club,...
FREEMAN DYSON

There's a difference between the parts that I play and who I am and who people think I am. There...
MARTIN FREEMAN

I'm quite a disciplinarian: I can be a shouter. But I can be a very demonstrative kisser and hug...
MARTIN FREEMAN

I don't believe in technological determinism, especially not in biology and medicine. We have st...
FREEMAN DYSON

This approach may be legitimate with taxpayers who are known evaders. But it's very upsetting when a...
CAROLYN FREEMAN

I thought what a wonderful thing it is to leave a legacy to this world, which he has, because his mu...
CAROLYN FREEMAN

Be-bop of the '50s vintage as played by all the old-timers is great, but it's old and none of the ne...
CAROLYN FREEMAN

They are our inspiration ? to stay healthy, keep active, have a good outlook on life and just enjoy ...
CAROLYN FREEMAN

I don't like people looking at me; I hate the attention.
CATHY FREEMAN

I don't have a lot of regrets in my life.
CATHY FREEMAN

I don't agree with everything Madonna's done but she is fearless.
CATHY FREEMAN

I definitely do things on my terms, it may not seem that way but I actually do.
CATHY FREEMAN

Between 1991 and 1997 I had really serious asthma.
CATHY FREEMAN

Australians are a fantastic bunch of people but the attention can be overwhelming for someone like m...
CATHY FREEMAN

When I heard about [O'Sullivan running for Australia] I though that she's actually taking away a pla...
CATHY FREEMAN

It's a very competitive environment. I don't feel out of place at all.
CATHY FREEMAN

I think your allegiance should be to one country. I mean, she is exercising her freedom I guess, she...
CATHY FREEMAN

For athletes traditionally it's such a fantastic stepping stone to greater things down the track and...
CATHY FREEMAN

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.
FREEMAN DYSON

God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension.
FREEMAN DYSON

He called me grandpa. He was my grandson and everything. I'd been taking care of him for five months...
STEVE FREEMAN

These instruments don't care if it's blood or paint thinner to detect color.
MARY FREEMAN

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is...
FREEMAN DYSON

I've always slightly envied other actors I know who have different reputations. I think, 'Go...
MARTIN FREEMAN

Ford Reflex is a small car that doesn't feel small.
FREEMAN THOMAS

The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, bright...
FREEMAN DYSON

As soon as a job finishes, I am done with it. When I'm really, really enjoying the job, I love t...
MARTIN FREEMAN

I was running since I was 10. Since grade one at school people looked at me and thought, oh gosh she...
CATHY FREEMAN

The walks just kind of sprung it loose.
JEFF FREEMAN

We recently sold a lovely 17th century coffer with beautiful carving for $3,500. What else can you b...
LISA FREEMAN

I'm geek royalty now.
MARTIN FREEMAN

Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.
MARTIN FREEMAN

In the past, my success has come with sticking to one plan. That usually works. Obviously it's g...
FREDDIE FREEMAN

I think it's just poise. A lot of senior leadership. We've got a lot of old guys. So I think that fa...
ZACH FREEMAN

I find it disturbing to think about moving graveyards. It's not a planning issue, but it's a moral o...
RICHARD FREEMAN

I am housebound. There is no point to shoveling the sidewalk ... the drifts are impossibly high and ...
RICHARD FREEMAN

It was totally premeditated. They came to the UK to commit a murder, as a result of a blood feud in ...
RICHARD FREEMAN

He is a compassionate individual and for this sort of thing to happen is terrible. It is a shocking ...
RICHARD FREEMAN

Every survey shows that blacks are the group that most wants to be unionized.
RICHARD FREEMAN

Just because you see pictures of glaciers falling into the ocean doesn't mean anything bad is ha...
FREEMAN DYSON

I was on record before I did 'The Hobbit,' saying I don't care at all about 3D. And I su...
MARTIN FREEMAN

I'm just a sucker for a good script.
MARTIN FREEMAN

We all know that people who've never been on a film set think it's way more glamorous than t...
MARTIN FREEMAN

Your slippers last a lot longer in your bedroom. On a film set, they do get very scuffed up.
MARTIN FREEMAN

I didn't audition for 'Fargo.' It was a straight offer.
MARTIN FREEMAN

There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are...
MARTIN FREEMAN

They're loaded. This is probably the best they've been since I've been here. When they won state in ...
MAURICE FREEMAN

I like being called 'Mr. Freeman' occasionally.
MARTIN FREEMAN

I think the guys were tired of not producing. Enough had been enough. We played a decent enough half...
TOM FREEMAN

There are systems to get people into this country without documents but they had difficulty in getti...
RICHARD FREEMAN

The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider them...
FREEMAN DYSON

I think this world needs a little more hugging in their lives.
FREDDIE FREEMAN

We believed that [in earlier attempts to pass such a proposal] we got bogged down by having those sp...
RAY FREEMAN

For me, feeling good is line drives to left field.
FREDDIE FREEMAN

It's always the little things. Timing is always an issue. We have to sell our ideas.
FREEMAN THOMAS

It's like looking at waves at the beach. You see them rolling in and you know it's a good day for su...
FREEMAN THOMAS

Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.

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Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.

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