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Quotes About Freedom

And yet I know that expressing oneself necessarily means being different. The writer's voice is a singular one, solitary. Art is nothing other than the freedom to express oneself in any language, in whatever manner, dressed any which way.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
Ghosh shook his head. 'You are still young. Free,' he said spreading his hands apart for emphasis. 'Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late. 'My grandfather always says that's what books are for,' Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. 'To travel without moving an inch.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
Dissecting my linguistic metamorphosis, I realize that I'm trying to get away from something, to free myself. I've been writing in Italian for almost two years, and I feel that I've been transformed, almost reborn.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
had never traveled alone before and I discovered that I liked it. No one in the world knew where I was, no one had the ability to reach me. It was like being dead, my escape allowing me to taste that tremendous power my mother possessed forever.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
As Americans, we can choose where we work and live, what we drive, which insurance plan is best for us, so why can we not give workers a choice when it comes to their retirement?
~ John Doolittle
I can honestly tell you that without God I would not be who I am today. He has done such an amazing work in my life and I want everyone to have the same freedom.
~ Joyce Meyer
I never chased after any particular school, never really had mentors; I really just did the work that was true to me.
~ Joyce Tenneson
I'm not married and I don't have kids, and so I like to go to work.
~ Justin Kirk
Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that's what I love about it.
~ Kaley Cuoco
I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.
~ Karen Black
I work whenever I'm let.
~ Katherine Anne Porter
You're able to make a real difference. If a woman's able to step away financially, she's able to begin to do all the other work.
~ Kerry Washington
I've always been able to let stuff go when I'm done with work.
~ Kyra Sedgwick
I think we should be able to work until we want to stop, which is what I'm going to have to do.
~ Laurence Fox
It didn't rain today, so I didn't have to work. Why don't you have to sit around and wait until it rains?
~ Linda Fiorentino
Every actor has to find space where they are free, in order to do good work.
~ Maggie Gyllenhaal
Work for Swaraj fails to appeal to us because we have no music in us.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I've avoided work all my life, you see. So, I'm like a bee. I go from flower to flower.
~ Malachy McCourt
The devil finds work for idle hands to do. Better to reign in the hell than serve in heaven. We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Even while you're in dead earnest about your work, you must approach it with a feeling of freedom and joy; you must be loose-jointed, like a relaxed athlete.
~ Margaret Bourke-White
I wanted to do my artistic work, and in Iran you have censorship. It was difficult for me to do the work I wanted to do.
~ Marjane Satrapi
Particularly as a Jew, I don't like missionary work. I've had it focused on me, and I don't like it. Let people be what they want to be.
~ Mark Helprin
I don't wear ties to work. And I don't shave.
~ Mark T Bertolini
The beauty of my work is that my sets cost nothing. That's what I love about being a writer of novels.
~ Markus Zusak