Quotes About Freedom

You think you're safe. Until you see a picture like that. And then you know you'll always be a slave to the present because the present is more powerful than the past, no matter how long ago the present happened.

The more we allow one kind of energy, the more the other can come through. Once a commitment is made, it is easier to allow a partner their solitude or freedom. Once we know our freedom is respected, we can more easily make a commitment. Conversely, the more a partner insists on one aspect, the more his lover will yearn for its opposite. Dynamic balance is a dance between attachment and freedom.

Your time may be limited, but your imagination is not.

We sure liberated the hell out of this place.

Thus ever to tyrants.

The two major things that changed the makeup of all professional sports are money generated by television and courts that players went to in order to win their freedom as free agents.

Flying has been such an important part of my professional life and I love to do it.

I made a decision a few years back to never again do anything professionally that I didn't want to do.

I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.

I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.

So if one, or two, or a handful of guys sells drugs for their own personal gain and profit who just so happens to be a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, we want that same consideration.

The things I learned from my parents, what was deeply ingrained in their generation, is this idea of opportunity and the freedom to have an opportunity. The way the United States was thought of is as a place you can have this chance to do anything, to say, 'This is my idea, and I get to offer it to you, and if you like it, I can profit from it.'

For me, being independent is about being able to express myself exactly how I want to, instead of maximising profits.

Not to invent yourself is to be false. To follow preordained rules is a profound betrayal of what it means to be human.

That profound night freedom was agreeable and exciting.

My art, like my acting, is a profound expression of poetic license.

I have a very personal feeling about how special America is, and I know how precious freedom is. It is a sacred gift, sanctified by those who have lived it and those who have died defending it. My right to speak my mind, to have a voice, to be what some have called 'opinionated,' is a right I deeply and profoundly cherish.

Some big actresses told me a few things that inspired me. One said that the biggest challenge for a female actress was to make sure they are not profoundly bored. Another told me to just do whatever you want - do anything.

If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own.

As an artist, program directors always want to put you in a little box.

I really had no program or any established plan. I didn't even ask myself if I should sell my paintings or not.

I used to watch a programme about Route 66 in America, and it looked so fun.

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don't want to be a colony in a nation.

'Freedom dieters' often do well with programs that incorporate pretty basic rules, like intermittent fasting - simply don't eat for X period of time, then eat healthy foods. Very simple.