Quotes About Freedom

Good is the director who lets you do what you have to do.

I feel terrible for directors of TV because all the episodes have to look the same. They make a great series for five or six years, and then when it's canceled, they can't break out on their own.

Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such freedom.

I love mountain-biking or any form of bikes, like dirt bikes; I love getting out there, although obviously I have to be careful.

I like to dirt bike ride, four wheeler, go-kart.

In the United States, because we are a nation of laws, you can lose an election and keep your life. In the United States, you can lose an election where you can disagree with our leaders or our government, and you won't lose your business; you won't lose your family, and you won't lose your freedom.

We can respect our disagreements, but we must cherish our democracy.

Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.

It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

I would hate to see the idea of freedom disappear, and I wonder if maybe it will.

Thanks to centuries of island freedom, when we were able to decide who came in and who didn't, it is far easier to disappear in Britain than in almost any other country in the world.

When I was given a tricycle, aged eight, I'd disappear for hours and do my own thing.

I don't want to write because I have to; I want to write because I want to. Sometimes, when writers write because they have to, the results are disastrous.

I love the freedom you feel on horseback, and enjoy the discipline of competition.

As for discipline and rules, I confess, I've never been good with either.

I've never been able to accept any kind of discipline.

Until I read Neill's book, 'Summerhill,' I thought there were only two ways to bring up children, either with authoritarian discipline or with permissiveness. Either way, hopefully, applied with love. Now I know there is a third way: teaching a child self*regulation, not by coercion or by abandoning discipline, but by freedom with responsibility.

I believe this: There is a lot of discipline to be derived from freedom.

The disciplined are free.

To be free on stage, you need to have been disciplined.

I do not want to deny anyone their livelihood or civil rights. Who wants to discriminate against anybody... But when it comes to homosexuality, I believe the laws of our land should be in line with God's laws.

The U.K. has some of the best protections in law for religious groups in the world. They aren't perfect, but they provide a strong basis for religious groups to be free from fear of discrimination. I'm proud of this because it underpins what is decent about our country.

Discrimination will impair democracy.

Because of the discrimination during my time as a teenager I decided to live my life as I want it.