Quotes About Freedom

I was raised to be independent.

In New York, my dad raised me to listen to everything like hip-hop, rock and country music. When I moved to Dallas, I started listening to whatever I wanted to listen to.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

I have left my home, my family, and my job, and I am raising my voice. To do otherwise would betray those who languish in prison. I can speak when so many cannot.

Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.

Working with Ram Gopal Varma is a great experience. He is such a wonderful director and no other director gives freedom to the actors like him.

When I ran, I felt like a butterfly that was free.

When I was in high school, I ran with the team, and I did a bit of running with friends and things. But as an adult, my favorite thing is to run by myself.

I had my freedom, and I had my comfortable life, but I couldn't accept the fact that the politicians were making it increasingly difficult for my kids and millions of others to achieve their dreams as I had achieved mine. So, in 2012, I ran for president.

I spent my 18th birthday in jail. Charges were dropped as long as I promised never to return to the state of Kansas. My parents took me home to Louisiana. I lasted there a week. Then I ran away.

I never needed anyone when I became an actress. I ran off to England on my own.

I ran away to sea. I know that only happens in fiction. But it's what I did.

To sit on a ranch horse that's been broken in, it's like getting in a Porsche.

I was raised on a ranch in Wyoming, and I've been riding horses most of my life.

I tell my boyfriend that... we should get a ranch so we can just adopt all the dogs that need homes, and they can just run around all day.

I love to just be on the ranch and experience life.

I tend to scribble down notes, lyrics or just random thoughts on pieces of paper, backs of cigarette packs, sometimes on my shirt cuff.

The great thing about Showtime is that they really give us leeway and the range to explore the real dark side of stuff.

The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.

Free music, to me, is music without boundaries. It's music that... says you don't have to play a blues in three chord change. See what I'm saying? Music that can go from any range.

I think in more ways than one 'Uyir' did a lot good, getting the scope to perform. Things have really fallen in place since then. Breaking free of the shackles has given me the rich option to choose and pick from the range of characters coming my way.

I've always wanted a broad range of options and to not get pigeonholed.

'Power' is a funny thing. Maybe it's a show that draws people in because they are watching people do things they secretly wish they could do or know they could get away with.

I just broke up all the furniture in the house. My mother had to get rid of me. So she put me in dance class.