Quotes About Freedom

Without a band, I'm much more free to improvise.

With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.

With 'Friday Night Lights,' we were encouraged to make it our own and improvise as much as we wanted.

A major component of jazz is improvisation, which forces you to stay in the moment because you never know what will be coming up. There's a lot of freedom and space available as you improvise around the chord changes.

I love improvising.

Everyone has a creative impulse, and has the right to create, and should.

When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?

From slavery to segregation, we remember that America did not always live up to its ideals. In fact, we often fell far short of them. But we also learned that fundamental to our national character is the drive to live out the true meaning of our creed.

We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.

Confidence and empowerment are cousins in my opinion. Empowerment comes from within and typically it's stemmed and fostered by self-assurance. To feel empowered is to feel free and that's when people do their best work. You can't fake confidence or empowerment.

We are so grateful we are given the chance and the freedom to do what we want, what we want to create, what's on our mind, and that's honestly what we asked for in the beginning of our career.

If I could, I would uncreate 8chan. Of course, you know, I'm guilty to a certain extent of allowing it to go in the beginning, but I never expected it to get this far.

In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.

Asian-Americans often struggle to be good sons and daughters, but it's ultimately your life. In the end, you have to find what you want.

In the end, I'm lucky enough to travel the world and make albums and not have to worry about not having a job.

I do not like to be told what to do, but in the end, I take my own decisions.

I really feel free and not as serious as I have been in the past.

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

In the locker room, and when I'm with my friends, we use racial slurs... What I do with my black friends is not up to white America to dictate to me what's appropriate and inappropriate.

Black people have been fighting for basic citizenship rights since the inception of the country.

It's my right to write on what I feel about certain incidents, and it's your choice whether to read it or not.

I sedulously refrained from doing anything that would incite slaves to run away from their masters.

I can do what I want, when I want. I want to go to this place, I pick up and go. It's nice. I've just never been inclined to do anything that's too crazy. But I still have to work, you know. Some days I don't feel like going to the studio. But I still have to.

I find that all great directors, and I would include Ben Affleck and Clint Eastwood in that, they have great confidence. And with great confidence comes great freedom for the actor.