Quotes About Freedom

A big thing to me was to be able to be in a situation where I could speak my mind freely especially when it came to my character. Get the actual right feedback and not have too many chefs in the kitchen and allow me to be me.

One thing I don't like is those three-star kitchens where they force the cooks to do exactly the same thing again and again. There has to be an element of chance in cookery.

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

I've never flown a kite.

I don't think kneeling during the anthem is such a bad thing.

Deny human rights, and however little you may wish to do so, you will find yourself abjectly kneeling at the feet of that old-world god, Force.

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

We are all a little bit hippy, a little bohemian. We take that from the culture we knew, from the '70s and the '80s.

Our Founding Fathers knew that without Second Amendment freedom, all of our freedoms could be in jeopardy.

You know, if James Brown is the godfather of soul then Richard Pryor is the godfather of comedy, period. That man knocked down all those last freedom of speech doors.

Knowledge is death in my experience. The more I know about film, the harder it is to create freely.

If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic.

When I escaped from China and came to Hong Kong, the contrast was that China was like hell and Hong Kong like heaven. Though I was very poor, I smelled the air of freedom and was full of hope for the future. That's the way I thought heaven is.

I am a pro-democracy activist asking for free elections in Hong Kong.

We want Hongkongers to decide the future of Hong Kong.

Hong Kong is different to mainland China. We protect our freedoms. We ask for free elections to elect the leader of our city.

China is dead set on making Hong Kong more like it.

We will continue civil disobedience to fight for democracy and for human rights in Hong Kong.

It is evident that the fanatical interpretation of the Koran is incompatible with our values of freedom and with Christian values.

There's hardly any governmental censorship in Korea.

The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world.

The Kurds were the only people in Iraq who were completely unguarded in expressing their gratitude to the United States for setting them free.

I've been in LA for 5 years now, and it's been very freeing creatively.

I don't see myself ever being in a position where I need to sign to a label.