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I Think That We Did A Really Good Thing When We Elected Barack Obama. I Read His Books. He Is Absolutely And Totally Qualified For The Job. He's Proven Himself To Be Not Only Qualified For The Job, But Very Good At It. The Things That He's Managed To Get Accomplished In The Face Of So Much Push-back Is Amazing, And I Think - This Is Morgan Freeman's Personal Thought - We're Going To Be In A Lot Of Trouble If We Don't Reelect Him, Because The People On The Other Side Of The Fence Scare Me.

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I Think That We Did A Really Good Thing When We Elected Barack Obama. I Read His Books. He Is Absolutely And Totally Qualified For The Job. He's Proven Himself To Be Not Only Qualified For The Job, But Very Good At It. The Things That He's Managed To Get Accomplished In The Face Of So Much Push-back Is Amazing, And I Think - This Is Morgan Freeman's Personal Thought - We're Going To Be In A Lot Of Trouble If We Don't Reelect Him, Because The People On The Other Side Of The Fence Scare Me.

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Fatigue, Discomfort, Discouragement Are Merely Symptoms Of Effort.

I Am God. So It’s Easy To Play Him. They Say God Is In All Things. So If God Is In Me, Then I Am In God. Therefore, I Am God. God Does Not Exist Without Me.

It's Sort Of Well-known That Anytime Any Catastrophe Happens Anywhere In The World, They Can Count On The United States For Help.

The Highest Power Is The Human Mind. That's Where God Came From And My Belief In God Is My Belief In Myself.

Nobody Is Trying To Save Energy. We're Trying To Shift Our Use Of Fuel. Forget Saving Energy; If We Get The Right Kind Of Energy, There Are Endless Amounts.

I Was Told That I Was Good In My Dance Movement Classes And That I Should Concentrate On Dance Because It Would Enhance My Ability To Get Acting Work.

Stage Is Really Hard Work. You've Got To Do It Every Night. Not Like Doing It Once And Walking Away.

I Never Think About Awards Or Anything Like That When I Do A Job. I Was First Named A Best Actor When I Was 12 Years Old And It Doesn't Really Mean Anything When You Get Down To It, Because There Is No Best. I Don't Get All That Involved. My Chest Puffs Up As Much As I Can Puff It Up But I Am Not Trying To Be Better Than The Person I Am Acting With. I Am Trying To Be At Least As Good. That's How It Works.

If You Look Back On Your Life And Where You Started From It's Like Looking Back Down A Mountain Back To The Desert Floor. It's Like Now I Can't Believe I Had Whatever It Takes Or Perceived Whatever It Took To Get Here.

Marijuana Prohibition Is Just The Stupidest Law Possible....jus T Legalize It And Tax It Like We Do Liquor.

I Was Always Ambitious. I Always Wanted To Be More Than I Was....i Always Wanted To Be A Movie Actor.

You Want To Retire From A Job You're Not That All Enamoured With. I Love What I Do. I Want To Keep Doing It Till I Can't Get Out Of Bed Doing It.

You Can't Take Credit For Talent; You Can Only Take Credit For Using It.

From Early Childhood, My Thrust Was To Get Into The Movies.

Early Childhood

Forgiveness Liberates The Soul, It Removes Fear.

We’re Turning Everything On The Planet Into Food For Humans So We’re Cutting Down The Rainforests, Displacing All Of The Animals, And We’re Doing All This To Feed Humans... ... Imagine If There Were Only 2 Billion People Polluting? We’re Already Overpopulated. I Feel We’ve Become A Parasite On This Planet. If This Population Keeps Growing, We’ll Just Keep Devouring The Planet, And I Don’t Think It’s Going To Stand For That Very Long.

I Have Four Children And Nine Grandchildren. I'm Presently Wearing Out My Second Wife.

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