Quotes About Freedom

Why hire these geniuses if they're forced to stick with the script? You want to empower your actors as collaborators.

I think I'm confident because I'm free, I challenge myself, and I stick to what I do.

During President George W. Bush's two terms, you couldn't drive far without seeing a particular bumper sticker: 'Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.'

I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That's just so not me.

I never plan to run at a certain pace. All my career my motto has been 'no limits.' I don't try to run with a set time in mind, sticking to set splits, because what happens if you're ahead of your splits - are you going to slow down?

I don't know where my fashion sense comes from, exactly. I've always been interested in, not necessarily being unique, but not necessarily sticking to the preexisting paradigm - whether it be clothes or music or whatever.

Conservatism to me is limited government, liberty and sticking to the Constitution and realizing that government is not the solution to almost anything, that your community, your family is the solution to everything.

The best thing about doing a realistic film is that you have the freedom to deliver your lines as natural as possible without sticking to the script.

One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people.

Some rules are there for a reason - but it's one thing to have a rule that protects and another to have rules that stifle.

Anytime you put yourself in a creative box, it's going to stifle you; it's not conducive to the writing or recording process.

All those things you hear about networks trying to stifle creativity - CW lets creators create and gives us freedom.

You can't let regret stifle your creativity.

I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't see any stigma attached to it. We don't need a man to prove our identity anymore.

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be.

In all the years with IBM Research, I have especially appreciated the freedom to pursue the activities I found interesting and greatly enjoyed the stimulus, collegial cooperation, frankness, and intellectual generosity of two scientific communities, namely in superconductivity and critical phenomena.

There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. Dr. King did not stir us to move for our civil rights to have them taken away in these kinds of fashions.

Free press is not absolute. In this country, we say clearly if you start stirring up racial hatred, then we will put a stop to it. We might even close down your paper, because these things can only lead to a lot of riots and bloodshed.

No one owns you. One hundred per cent of the stock in your personal corporation belongs to you.

Whatever people can stomach, I say go for it.

Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.

I am a rolling stone, never in one place for very long.

The slavery at Bufford's was too fresh in my recollection to let me care to bind myself again. From the time that I took my nose off that lithographic stone, I have had no master, and never shall have any.