Quotes About Restriction

I did a very stupid diet where you have three food groups, and you never eat them together. It's so bloody tedious; I'm losing the will to live just describing it. I managed to stay very thin because you spent your life wandering around starving hungry looking for a chickpea to go with a chicken leg.

People have always asked me why I'm drawn to material about kids, and for me, it's - I remember being at that age and feeling completely and utterly powerless. You know, there's so many things you wanna do and so many things you're told you can't do.

I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans.

When it's a real person, you want to be as honest as you can and approach it in a similar way as you would any other character, but with that restriction and wanting to respect the boundaries of that person and not be intrusive in any way.

I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.

Sales of corsets doubled between 1948 and 1958, possibly as part of the process of putting women back into the box, as they gave up the jobs and freedoms that came during wartime.

Big surprise. Mom had instituted a curfew. Like there was something we'd do after midnight that we wouldn't do before.

They kept me in a cage for too long because now every room I am standing in is just another cell.

bad breath and butt smell; that is prison, in a nutshell.

Ties are straightened and expressions banished.

If legislation is truly necessary, one would expect the government to be able to provide proof of this beyond anecdote and speculation. Such proof is the least we can expect before we accept a government restriction of liberty as legitimate.

I'm not pointing any fingers, but look at the places where beer is absolutely forbidden. It's easy to see the contrast.

All freedoms need to be constricted, otherwise the result is infinite conflict and the triumph of the fittest.

Since free people of color, almost invariably poor, came cheaply, prior restrictions against their enlistment were either overturned or ignored. Despite national policy, even slaves were allowed to enlist; some towns paid bounties to masters who allowed their slaves to join the army.

These things I believe: that government should butt out.

I'm not really allowed to drink a lot of caffeine, because I'm 11.

The rule was I had to go to college, and I couldn't even go to theater camp.

My parents wanted to keep me away from girls, so they sent me to a Catholic boy's school, the Loyola Academy in Chicago.

I honestly felt like there was a ceiling for me that I was not able to break.

Censorship constrains art and limits its impact as much as it does with all free thought.

I'm not for censorship without reason.

My cheat meals aren't even that exciting.

I'm no different from anybody else. If I don't have a card, I can't check out these books.

I'm sauteing asparagus, Brussels sprouts,broccoli, some boneless, skinless chicken breast, some halibut. That's about it; that's all I'm allowed. That's what's legal for me to saute.