938 private quotes tagged freedom

“A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.” — Stanley Kubrick

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“The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.” — Silvio Berlusconi

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“The 'Bird's Nest' National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of 'fair competition.' It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength.” — Ai Weiwei

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“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.” — Benjamin Britten

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“I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.” — Marilyn Monroe

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“In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom.” — Roberto Cavalli

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“Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.” — Kevyn Aucoin

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“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” — Viktor E. Frankl

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“The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.” — Samuel Adams

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“I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.” — Simone de Beauvoir

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“I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.” — Brad Thor

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“There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.” — Ron Paul

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“Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.” — Robert Wyatt

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“If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.” — Leo Buscaglia

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“You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.” — Robert A. Heinlein

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“If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.” — Malcolm X

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“When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.” — Pope John Paul II

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“Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.” — John Quincy Adams

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“I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.” — Johnny Depp

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“Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.” — Pope John Paul II

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“The fight for freedom must go on until it is won until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.” — Oliver Tambo

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“Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.” — Thomas Sowell

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“How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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“You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.” — Malcolm X

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“With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.” — Dan Lipinski

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