- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freedom Quotes
Freedom looks different depending on what you're free from.
Freedom shows up here in several forms - the room a genre gives an artist to take risks, the flexibility educators say they need to get real results, and the broader idea of personal liberty pushing back against overreach. For a related theme, see Courage Quotes.
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have way more freedom in Los Angeles and in the U.S. But it's funny because when I have a meeting with producers or people from the industry, we go to a restaurant to meet someone, and nobody knows me. But all of the sudden, the entire kitchen comes out, and they start taking pictures with me, or at valet parking.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up with a bold feminist in my mother, I witnessed her march magnificently from mini to maxi, fashions so obviously linked to powerful statements of female progression, equality and recognition. I knew no other than freedom of expression in all the forms it came in; art, theatre, fashion, literature and music.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
These men were religious when the spirit of religion was buried in forms and ceremonies, and when the priesthood had armed itself with the civil powers to put down all opposition, and suppress all freedom, intellectual, civil, and religious.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When there's so much freedom - financially and otherwise - smart kids get themselves into trouble. My parents did a good job of sheltering me from the negative aspects of wealth and success.
- Optimism
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- Nov 07, 2020
I distinctly remember the vivacious optimism that inundated the United States when the Soviet Union imploded in the early 1990s. This was not glee generated by the doom of an implacable enemy, but thrill germinated by the real possibilities that the future held for freedom.
- Corollary
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- Nov 07, 2020
But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conquerors never, never conquer a nation to bring freedom. They brought control.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we've overstated that God is the God who wants us to obey. Obedience is not the end game. Obedience is only our calling so that we can step into our freedom.
- Economic Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away.
- Emphasized
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's good that the first half of the speech emphasized freedom, because George W. Bush has been the global champion for freedom. As he said, if we don't fight tyranny it will not leave us alone in peace.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020