Birgitte Hjort Sorensen Quotes
Any director or writer or artist has the right to do what they want to do - freedom of expression is something I celebrate.
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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
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I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.
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The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
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When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
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As wild as I was, when the cops show up, and suddenly you're being handcuffed, it's so deeply shocking and terrifying, the loss of freedom.
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My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within.
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It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election.
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Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever we have to with earnestness and honesty, including being uninhibited. Yet we hold onto our roots.
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The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.
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I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.
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Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered.
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There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit.
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If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.
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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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I don't think I make dance music. It's not even 4/4. And it's slow.
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I've been in so many writing workshops where someone hands in a story, and when the other writers in the workshop are giving feedback, they say, 'This is unbelievable.' And the writer says, 'Well, actually, the events are based in real life. This actually happened.'
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Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.
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Any director or writer or artist has the right to do what they want to do - freedom of expression is something I celebrate.
