Quotes About Freedom

You don't ever have to feel pushed into anything.

I don't like having to be pushed into a box.

I don't like being pigeonholed. Why would you want to limit yourself to one style or one genre? Labels are something I want to avoid. I've had it my whole life, being pushed into a place, a circumstance or situation I didn't want to be in. My motivation has always been to get away from it.

Once you start choking the space for dissent in a democracy, people feel pushed to the wall and then it leads to further dissent and alienation.

I like the outdoors. I like to run. In gym I feel restricted. When I exercise in open, it gives me a certain freedom and pushes me to do more.

Like every mother, I also want Alia and Shaheen to be happy. Whatever they do, they should feel satisfied doing it. I'm not a paranoid mother who pushes them to settle down.

Korra and Aang ultimately stand for freedom, equality, and basic human rights, and I think Mike and I are fine with pushing that agenda.

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

No one could put my personality in a box. I didn't necessarily fit in.

I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash.

Leaders' like Maduro, Erdogan and Putin hate freedom because it gives filthy peasants too much say and power over their own lives.

The good thing from my perspective is that nobody puts any pressure on me to say what it's going to be. The backers accept that they don't know what they are going to get.

In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them.

All this crap the church puts on you about divorce is just crap. You do the best that you can do, and when you can't do it, you can't do it.

'Thelma and Louise' was a pretty important film for me and still is. It's a social film about many things - gender, freedom - and it puts someone like me into the place of these protagonists. Watching that movie, you are living through the eyes of these women.

Burn the flag; that's a freedom. Then I have the freedom to take it away from them and tell them how dumb they are.

Being a gay American, I know what it means to look at the flag and not have it protect all of your liberties.

I like long floaty clothes that don't restrict me, and I live in flat boots.

My mother made the courageous decision to flee a tyrannized Cuba in the 1950s and bring her children to the United States, where I was born.

There's something just magical about flight. Period.

We created out own little world when we were kids and that's what's so special about Donegal. You can create whatever you imagine here. There's so much nature to let your imagination take flight.

If you listen to my music, that's everything I stand for: women being free about their sexuality, flipping the industry's gender roles and society's gender roles and just being as confident as you can be with yourself, your sexuality.

I travel on my own and try to - I float along to music.

I am always floating around trying to tend to everyone and be free while at the same time enjoying some space.