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It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.
– Charles Kuralt
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It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control.
– Henry Charles Carey
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It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.
– Corazon Aquino
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It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.
– Rosanne Cash
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It is not natural or inevitable that half the world goes hungry that the freedom of markets trumps protection of the planet or that citizens' rights come second to those of corporations.
– Frances O'Grady
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It is hard to know how many people do, but given that the people are so docile towards the rulers, nowadays, very few Americans show the passion for freedom that our forefathers had.
– James Bovard
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It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.
– Leo McKern
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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
– Mark Twain
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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
– Samuel Adams
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It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.
– Steve Winwood
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Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means, and how it behaves in a time of danger, war and terror. We thank Britain for introducing freedom and respect of human rights both in normal and demanding circumstances.
– Shimon Peres
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Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.
– Tim Robbins
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In times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times.
– Michael Burgess
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In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.
– Noam Chomsky
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In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.
– Richard Stallman
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In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.
– Ivan Turgenev
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In terms of filming, yes, it really does feel over now. There's a real sense of freedom now. It's a good time to finish, I think. As much as I'm going to miss it I'm ready to move on and do different things.
– Rupert Grint
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In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.
– Desmond Tutu
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In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?
– Frederic Bastiat
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In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.
– Noam Chomsky
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In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
– Henri Frederic Amiel
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In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
– Peter Ustinov
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In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
– Vince McMahon
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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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If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it's the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that.
– Nick Clegg
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If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there.
– Colin Firth
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If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.
– Aung San Suu Kyi
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If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.
– Ibrahim Babangida
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If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.
– Hal Sparks
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If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
– Wendell Willkie
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If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people.
– Henry A. Wallace
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If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!
– Mother Jones
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If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.
– Jon Stewart
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If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?
– Matt Drudge
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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
– Rand Paul
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If one more 'journalist' makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally or with my fans' help, greet them at their home and discover just how much they believe in their freedom of speech.
– Marilyn Manson
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If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.
– Kofi Annan
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If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play.
– Alice Cooper
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If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces, it is because we are all especially concerned for the welfare of those who are risking their lives in the cause of freedom.
– William Lyon Mackenzie King
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If I am elected President of these United States, I will work with all my energy and soul to restore that America, to lift our eyes to a better future. That future is our destiny. That future is out there. It is waiting for us. Our children deserve it, our nation depends upon it, the peace and freedom of the world require it.
– Mitt Romney
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If governments let themselves be fully bound by the decisions of their parliaments without protecting their own freedom to act, a breakup of Europe would be a more probable outcome than deeper integration.
– Mario Monti
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If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come.
– Mitch Daniels
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If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase.
– Richard Stallman
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If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.
– Gary Ackerman
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I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.
– Melissa Etheridge
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I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.
– Cat Stevens
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I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
– Margaret Atwood
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I've never let producers tell me what to do. Even when I was making television, I always did what I wanted to do, and if I couldn't, I didn't do it. It was a freedom that, these days, young directors starting out don't have.
– Michael Haneke
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I've never had anything but the freedom to do what I wanted just as long as it made me happy.
– Rene Redzepi
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I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it.
– James Lovelock
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I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.
– George McGovern
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I'm privileged, because I have a lot of freedom. I want to use it to make as warm and normal a life as I can for our daughters.
– Jennifer Garner
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I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.
– Jackie Chan
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I'm not a drug addict. My wild period wasn't about drugs it was about sexual freedom.
– Calvin Klein
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I'm a multidimensional person and that's the freedom of fashion: that you're able to reinvent yourself through how you dress and how you cut your hair or whatever.
– Emma Watson
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I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.
– Jimmy Wales
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I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture.
– Robert Capa
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I wish we would all remember that being American is not just about the freedom we have it is about those who gave it to us.
– Mike Huckabee
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I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.
– Anna Quindlen
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I wasn't a woman who stayed tiny like I thought I would. I definitely gave myself the freedom to eat what I wanted.
– Jennifer Garner
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I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my own thing under the radar, but I didn't get in bad, bad trouble.
– Paul Giamatti
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I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world.
– Natan Sharansky
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I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.
– Amy Tan
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I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.
– Tom Stoppard
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I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.
– Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life.
– J. Paul Getty
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I wanted to try to push some freedom into the men's clothes.
– Miuccia Prada
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I want to have the freedom to do whatever I want.
– Paul Walker
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I used to think that if I had success I would have freedom. But I have less freedom now than I've ever had. And what gives me satisfaction is not the jewelry and not the cars. What gives me satisfaction is doing things for others, like children.
– Criss Angel
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I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.
– Sting
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I think we recognize as Americans there are certain things that are just primary to the freedoms and liberties that we enjoy here and religious freedom is one of the most important things we as Americans cherish.
– Ann Romney
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I think to be - for me to be an American is - you know, it's one of the greatest things in the world for - you know, for me just because I've been able to grow up with everything. The freedom. You know, in my eyes this is the greatest country in the world.
– Michael Phelps
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I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.
– Boyd Rice
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I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.
– Alan Rickman
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I think there is a heritage which I'm proud of, which is a fight for democracy, a fight for social justice, a fight for freedom. My grandfather went to jail or exile six times in his life, fighting for his principles for democracy, or for his country. And my father twice.
– George Papandreou
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I think the American people have become more reliant upon government and less reliant upon themselves and that they now tend to put security ahead of freedom, but I think freedom is the most important aspect of our lives.
– Lyn Nofziger
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I think that we could be more careful about what we're saying to young women in terms of their expectations. It's unrealistic to expect people to always be in designer clothes. Girls growing up deserve more freedom in how they look and how they feel about how they look.
– Emily Procter
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I tasted freedom and I really liked it.
– Phil Lynott
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I take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom.
– Jean Paul Gaultier
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I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.
– George Will
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I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.
– Gordon Parks
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I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.
– Felix Baumgartner
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I stand for limited government, fiscal responsibility, personal freedom, personal responsibility, so the Republican Party will support me.
– Rick Scott
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I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter.
– Maureen O'Hara
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I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism.
– Gijs de Vries
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I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.
– Jacqueline Bisset
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I really care about this stuff, I care about movies, and you just have to be strong and don't be stupid freedom of choice is a big responsibility, and I'm lucky enough not to have to just take any movie to pay the rent, so there's no need to be greedy.
– Jonah Hill
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I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.
– Howard Nemerov
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I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.
– Justin Timberlake
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
– Zane Grey
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I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray.
– Lech Walesa
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I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see.
– Julian Assange
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I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me - and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management. At some point, I need to recharge.
– Blake Shelton
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I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.
– Sidney Sheldon
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I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.
– Richard Branson
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I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.
– Ice Cube
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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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I like the freedom of podcasting. With podcasting you can really mess around with the form and the format. You can do as much time as you like without having to pause for commercials.
– Adam Carolla
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I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties.
– Jeremy Renner
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I like movies that pop, that have a little bit of candy on, that freedom to have a little bit of extra fun, but are rooted in real behaviour. Rooted in cause and effect, never violating reality.
– Tony Gilroy
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