Quotes About Freedom

If you confine it, you're confining a whole thing. If you make it spontaneous, so that anything can happen, like we don't want to confine or restrict anything. What we can do, whatever we can let happen, you just let it happen.

As I've moved through life, I've found that I like things to be as casual and as spontaneous as possible when writing.

I'm not able to make amazingly perfect, precious pieces of content, but I get to make awesome spontaneous content that's frequently ephemeral.

I've found that the older I get, the more spontaneous I become.

My first novel, 'John Crow's Devil,' freed me up to write about the past, and 'The Book of Night Women' freed me up to have a book totally based on voice and being very spontaneous.

My style is very spontaneous.

I think it's important to be flexible and free, and you can't be free and spontaneous if you don't know what you're doing.

I can't even go on a spontaneous walk or to a restaurant without armored cars and police, but there is no alternative.

When I got divorced I was so happy. I love to be spontaneous, I was enjoying my freedom.

Living each day as if it were your last doesn't mean your last day of retirement on a remote island. It means to live fully, authentically and spontaneously with nothing being held back.

Just because I am a Muslim doesn't mean that I need to live in a certain way and sport a certain look.

Sport is escapism. Sport is a release.

I love being on my bike, but I don't consider that a sport: it's too pleasant.

Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.

I'm nothing more than a sports slave.

I saw what politics did to the Olympic Games in 1980 and 1984, and I would defend the right of a sportsman to go and play and perform where they want.

That's one of the nice things about being a sportsman is that once you cross that white line, it is a freedom, you are away from everything in life really. You are playing cricket and that's an escape from everything. That's as clear as you get really.

The road is the best spot to drive - just anywhere.

Ever since Apple Music, Spotify, and all of those things came around, we can choose whatever we want to listen to. Before then, it was all controlled, but now, everybody listens to everything.

What could be more important to the pursuit of happiness than the right to choose your spouse without asking a Washington politician for permission?

No one should be denied the opportunity to choose his or her spouse. It is a basic human right and deeply personal decision.

You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun.

I like L.A. because of the light. The light makes me feel so good. It's really beautiful. And there's something about L.A. being so spread out that gives you a feeling of freedom. Light and freedom.

The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.