Quotes About Freedom

The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do that in the 1950s if you were gay. There were secret handshakes, a secret language. There was nowhere you could go to be romantic outside of people's houses.

There's literally nowhere I won't go.

The idea of Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Dracula, all I could think of was, why haven't they done this with him before? It's such a genius idea. 'Dracula' has always been done as film, so it's been an hour and 40 minutes. What we're done is 10 hours of 'Dracula,' so you have a lot of freedom with all the different mythologies and nuances.

Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.

I was by no means a nun.

Art is about going a little nuts... Kids do art for fun. It's playing.

Isn't it fun to be nuts? Isn't it fun to be crazy?

If I have anything to say against Obama it's not because I'm a racist, it's because I don't like what he's doing as President and anybody should be able to feel that way, but what I find now is that if you say anything against him you're called a racist.

The Obama Administration cares deeply about innovation and about helping to make sure that geeks across the country, those coming up with new discoveries and exciting inventions - and creating jobs along the way - have the freedom and security to keep innovating.

If the government controls your health care, the government controls you. Obamacare was never about health care. It was about government power, dependency, and control.

Obamacare is going to destroy our economy and destroy our freedom.

Every aspect of Obamacare is an affront to the very founding of this country.

The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.

I'm not trying to obey the rules of radio.

The communitarians may say you've been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that for the benefit of the community. But they really mean that they want more power over your life - to force you to subsidize, obey and conform to their choices.

I think we've overstated that God is the God who wants us to obey. Obedience is not the end game. Obedience is only our calling so that we can step into our freedom.

Americans have the right to say what they believe. But with that right comes the responsibility to respect our neighbors, respect law enforcement, and obey the laws.

I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.

The strong arm of government should not force Americans to buy health-care products that they have reasoned objections to.

We say that our objective is to conquer complete independence, to install a people's power, to construct a new society without exploitation, for the benefit of all those who feel themselves to be Mozambicans.

I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.

A dream is better than obligation.

Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.

Every writer loves the idea of being able to go in and fix a problem and then leave without obligation. It's fun!