Quotes About Freedom

In the old days, talent owned their costumes, their intellectual property, their gimmicks. They were not employees and could wrestle anywhere they wanted to, and that just is not case in today's WWE.

NXT has been great to me. I love being able to wrestle the way I want to wrestle and be who I want to be. NXT is this amazing platform to do that.

For me, wrestling was an escape. It was like a way out.

Many of those who have paid the ultimate price for freedom have come through the wrestling ranks. We need to honor them and win this decision to have wrestling - the world's oldest sport - remain a part of the most prestigious athletic competition in the world, the Olympics.

Wrestling's a form of expression, and it expresses vastness.

One doesn't have to just roll over once the wrinkles show: that's when I think one should really start living it up... the lessons are learned, the cities have been built, so one can finally go super cray!

Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.

When I write, I can shake off all my cares.

Nobody has to give me permission to write.

We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.

Write what you like; there is no other rule.

You have to write your own story, your own graph and rhythm.

To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.

People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.

I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don't have to be in love with anyone.

I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.

I don't write for a particular audience. I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself.

Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought.

The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important.

Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.

I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into prose and tell different kinds of stories and stuff. But being a writer is so great because you're literally not dependent on anybody.

As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write, I'm gonna write the way I wanna write!

Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.