Heather Brooke Quotes

I'm a freedom of information campaigner, so obviously I support the cause of Wikileaks.

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• It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Different
  • Freedom
  • Take

• 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.

  

  Ralph Bellamy
  • Life
  • Great
  • Country

• Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Nature
  • Freedom
  • Flower

• Our pain hides beneath these fluttering, random thoughts that run through our heads in an endless loop. But there's so much freedom in getting to know what's under there, the bedrock.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Freedom
  • Pain
  • Thoughts

• America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • America
  • Freedom
  • Lose

• He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • Long
  • Freedom

• The search for freedom through sex is doomed to failure.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Freedom
  • Failure
  • Sex

• I think that democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves, they will seek it, cherish it, and view any privation of it with regret. But for equality, their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible: they call for equality in freedom; and if they cannot obtain that, they still call for equality in slavery.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Freedom
  • Passion
  • Regret

• Press and Internet freedom correlate against economic and social success, GDP, innovation, number of patents filed, and educational attainment. The more freedom there is, the more information, the more choice, and ultimately, more power for each individual.

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • Power
  • Success
  • Freedom

• The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.

  

  James Truslow Adams
  • Freedom
  • Worry

• We were kind of caught up in the genre trap. We didn't really have a lot of artistic freedom. They wanted us to go into a certain direction, so they could promote us easier.

  

  Mark McGrath Sugar Ray
  • Up
  • Freedom

• The freedom I have as a U.S. citizen is unparalleled. Despite the fact people may not like American passports, having that passport affords me more freedoms than any other passport could.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • People
  • May
  • American

• Westerns are simple stories where there's good and there's evil and where people had a sense of space and freedom. Growing up in the city, as a kid, you've never really seen that before. It's a beautiful dream to go from concrete to big skies, dirt and horses.

  

  Antoine Fuqua
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • People
  • Job
  • True

• Independence is fun, especially when there's a beloved waiting in the wings, and freedom makes you a more interesting person. Having separate lives brings fresh air into a relationship.

  

  Deborah Moggach
  • Fun
  • Freedom
  • Interesting

• Let us not return to the old battlefield where so many shed blood and tears for the right to vote. Instead let us move forward to an era where all eligible Americans have equal access to the ballot box and have the freedom to vote for the candidate of their choosing.

  

  Marc Veasey
  • Freedom
  • Tears

• Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States.

  

  Dave Brubeck
  • Freedom
  • Democracy
  • Discipline

• No nation which refuses to exercise forbearance and to respect the freedom and rights of others can long remain strong and retain the confidence and respect of other nations. No nation ever loses its dignity or good standing by conciliating its differences and by exercising great patience with, and consideration for, the rights of other nations.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Good
  • Great
  • Long

• Slang is a foul pool at which every dunce fills his bucket, and then sets up as a fountain.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Up
  • Pool

• When I got signed as a songwriter, I immediately thought, 'Oh, no one sees me as an artist because I don't look good enough.' So I shut down the whole idea.

  

  Meghan Trainor
  • Good
  • Idea
  • Songwriter

• My family is Muslim. But I don't consider myself a very devout Muslim, but a cultural Muslim, whatever that means.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Family
  • Myself
  • Cultural

• We're coming to the peak, I think soon, before we have to come back to, like, humanity. Humanity needs to look, and it hasn't been looking for so long.

  

  Frank Dillane
  • Long
  • Humanity

• Freedom is the silence of the law.

  

  George Will
  • Law
  • Silence

• I'm a freedom of information campaigner, so obviously I support the cause of Wikileaks.

  

  Heather Brooke
  • Freedom
  • WikiLeaks
  • Information campaigner