Free Quotes
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I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them. It did me little good to be holding the helm; no matter how strong my hands, the sudden and numerous waves were stronger still, and I was wise enough to yield to them rather than resist them obstinately and make the ship founder. Thus I never was truly my own master but was always ruled by circumstances.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I was in the closet, so to speak, until after the fifth year when I was cancer-free.
Richard Roundtree
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When people are not in a prison cell they believe they are free and happy. That's not true. Because in Istanbul, the modern person wakes up at 5 o'clock or 6 o'clock in the morning, gets on the bus for two hours to get to work, works at least ten hours, sometimes twelve or fourteen, then comes back home, just to make some money to pay for rent and food. That's not a human being's life. That's the life of a worm in the earth. That's the life of an insect.
Burhan Sonmez
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I hate America. I hate this country. It’s just big ideas, and stories, and people dying, and people like you. The white cracker who wrote the national anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word 'free' to a note so high nobody can reach it. That was deliberate. Nothing on earth sounds less like freedom to me. You come to room 1013 over at the hospital, I'll show you America. Terminal, crazy and mean. I live in America, that’s hard enough, I don’t have to love it. You do that. Everybody’s got to love something.
Tony Kushner
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Red of the Dawn Is it turning a fainter red? so be it, but when shall we lay The ghost of the Brute that is walking and hammering us yet and be free?
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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I've been known to wear pajamas onstage for the sole reason of wanting to make sure I'm free enough to execute new things vocally onstage and give my best performance possible.
SZA
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The dream is free, but the hustle is sold separately.
Steve Harvey
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Surgical intervention can be precisely what a trans person needs - it is also not always what a trans person needs. Either way, one should be free to determine the course of one's gendered life.
Judith Butler
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We had no longing for excessive wealth: a mere competency, though earned by daily toil, so that it was reasonably sure, and free from the drag of continued indebtedness to others, was all we coveted.
Edmund Morris
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The only way for me to be safe and free was to be - be what my name decreed me. Enola. Alone.
Nancy Springer
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If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities... the expression of love... then life itself loses its meaning.
Harvey Milk
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Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul, when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.
Josephine Baker
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It reminds me that those of us who turn in disgust from what we consider an overinflated liberal-bourgeois sense of self should be careful what we wish for: our denuded networked selves don't look more free, they just look more owned.
Zadie Smith
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You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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It's hard to sell records when you can get it for free everywhere.
Jason Wade
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I originally wrote 'The Martian' as a free serial novel, posting one chapter at a time to my website.
Andy Weir
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When you break up, it's like you're free, and when you break up with a band, it's like you're free, and I was very free.
Paddy Boom Scissor Sisters
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You belong somewhere you feel free.
Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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One of the mistakes I made was believing that the rock n' roll genre as a genre was much more free than the whole pop or R&B scene.
Joan Jett
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We have been told to ask about everything: Will it leave us free?
Ben Robertson
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Which has allowed Shane to take all the No. 2 reps. We just wanted to let him concentrate on doing that and become good at free safety. And, then, if he shows that he can maybe handle more and more things that may be a possibility.
Bret Bielema
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If there is no other world and there is no fruit and ripening of actions well done or ill done, then here and now in this life I shall be free from hostility, affliction, and anxiety, and I shall live happily.
Gautama Buddha
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The world has no reason for fighting in our defense, and as a matter of principle God does not make cowardly nations free.
Adolf Hitler
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. . .building is medicine for free.
Catherynne M. Valente