Quotes About Freedom

For someone like me who gets bored very easily, this life is perfect. I can't be at one place for too long. Travelling broadens your thinking as a person and as an actor.

It doesn't matter where you are, you can just put your runners on and go. When I'm travelling, it's a really good way to get to know a city - especially if you've never been there before.

Sleep is over-rated. When you're creating, travelling, and having the best time of your life the last thing on your mind is sleep.

I'm always just travelling out of a suitcase. You get used to it.

I don't mind travelling. I'm independent, so I gotta get on the grind.

Travelling helps me rejuvenate and de-stress.

When I'm travelling, I don't like hotels that much because the spaces they have are really small. So, I look for a homestay or an Airbnb property which is large enough where you could just stretch out to do your thing.

I am a complete hippie when it comes to travelling.

I'm OK travelling, meeting people, seeing the world with my own eyes.

There was no way to lock down, or tighten up, or Fail-Safe into Security Theater a race that covers 26.2 miles, a race that travels from town to town, a race that travels past people's houses. There was no way to garrison the Boston Marathon. Now there will be.

I grew up with the understanding that the world I lived in was one where people enjoyed a sort of freedom to communicate with each other in privacy, without it being monitored, without it being measured or analyzed or sort of judged by these shadowy figures or systems, any time they mention anything that travels across public lines.

Art is fluid, and it travels. You have to let music take you where it wants to take you. You can't necessarily be the controller.

What you have in my work is one person's path as he travels through the world, and there is no limitation of what is conceivable.

As with the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, the origins of Shearith Israel trace back to a small group of religious freedom-seekers and a treacherous ocean passage to the New World.

I say, traitors; as some men live upon the reward of treachery, for their quiet and liberty; if it may be called a liberty, as it is redeemed with the betraying of the interest of Christ, and the blood of His people.

I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.

In Britain, British history is naturally a mainstream subject. Step outside your own narrow specialism, and you can find yourself treading on someone else's toes. But in America, British history is an eccentric, minority pursuit, and while this can be intellectually isolating, it also permits extraordinary freedom.

I don't want to get on the treadmill of earning more money. I'd rather live cheaply and allow myself more freedom. I can honestly say I've never taken a film just for the dough, although I've made some ghastly mistakes.

You put me on a treadmill, and I will run away, but you take me out on a beach, and I can run for an hour.

It's a privilege to be able to take care of yourself and not have to be constantly on the treadmill.

We should seek to love our lives and live fully, but not to extend them indefinitely. We should love our children exuberantly, but not cling to them or curtail their freedoms. We should treasure the material world without seeking to own and control it.

Nina Simone is a musical genius and a rich and precious treasure who paid a heavy price for her artistic freedom.

Imagination should always be treasured, even when it's slightly off-key.

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.