Jason Moran Quotes
Freedom is the thing that has attracted me most to jazz. Within improvisation, you're really able to express something that maybe I'm not so adept at expressing via language. So I develop a language through the instrument to tell stories. So it's kind of this freedom of thought and freedom of expression that kind happens.Jason Moran
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I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
Gary Johnson -
I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.
Taslima Nasrin -
There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.
Harriet Ann Jacobs -
We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.
Barack Obama -
But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.
Wendell Willkie -
Freedom is never given; it is won.
A. Philip Randolph
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When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.
Wendell Willkie -
He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within.
Quintus Ennius -
Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.
Ian Mckellen -
One of the greatest gifts God ever gave to humanity was that of liberty. We love freedom and bloom under it. We cannot and should not try to force people to live by a certain religious code. To do so negates our free will.
Sam Brownback -
The Bahraini people are eager to obtain facts to enable them to shape a comprehensive national opinion without division among its people. We confirm to all journalists and media personnel in the kingdom of Bahrain that their freedom is preserved and their rights are safeguarded.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa -
I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.
Kailash Satyarthi
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Freedom is living without chains.
Indra Devi -
Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I always had a lot of fun in America, with much more freedom than if I had tried to cook in France. I wouldn't have the same motivation or inspiration, and I wouldn't have cooked for the same kind of people in France, so it wouldn't have given me this edge I had in America.
Daniel Boulud -
I would welcome satirical references to political leaders as part of freedom of expression.
Kapil Sibal -
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln -
'Honor in the Dust' is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States.
Candice Millard
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I'm still like a butterfly going from one job to another job. But it's quite lovely - I hope to keep this freedom, to have fun.
Carine Roitfeld -
We think of the division of labor as being outdated, but in fact it has reemerged. In the early ‘80s, a mother was 43 times more likely than the father to leave the workplace for family responsibilities; more recently, a mom is 135 times more likely to leave the workplace for family responsibilities.
Warren Farrell -
I'm really good with sweats, not really good with heels, and not really good with accessorizing yet.
Annie Ilonzeh -
I will either be famous or infamous.
Otto Dix -
I dislike math, yet I respect and appreciate the fact that math is the language of the universe.
Lucas Grabeel -
Freedom is the thing that has attracted me most to jazz. Within improvisation, you're really able to express something that maybe I'm not so adept at expressing via language. So I develop a language through the instrument to tell stories. So it's kind of this freedom of thought and freedom of expression that kind happens.
Jason Moran