Liberating Quotes

• There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

  Drew Barrymore

  Design, Risk, Pretending

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

  Kofi Annan

  Education, Knowledge, Information Is Power

  Kofi Atta Annan (1998). “The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General”, United Nations

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• I think every woman should have a one-night stand. If it's done right, it can be liberating.

  Rachel Perry

  Night, Thinking, Should Have

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• Fear clogs; Faith liberates.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Faith, Freedom

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Knowledge is power. Information is liberating.

  Kofi Annan

  Information, Knowledge Is Power

  Kofi Atta Annan (1998). “The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General”, United Nations

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• There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.

  Conan O'Brien

  Inspirational, Graduation, Dartmouth

  Commencement Address at Dartmouth College, 2011.

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• But I think I'm on track to do something even bigger. I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

  Kanye West

  Thinking, People, Track

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• My whole life, I've wanted to feel comfortable in my skin. It's the most liberating thing in the world.

  Drew Barrymore

  Skins, World, Whole Life

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Marianne Williamson (2012). “A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever”, p.230, Hay House, Inc

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• The woman who needs to be liberated most is the woman in every man, and the man who needs to be liberated most is the man in every woman

  Magnus Hirschfeld

  Women, Males, Physicians

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• Awakening is about liberating yourself from the prison that is the world of the mind and daring to be here as all that you are.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Mind, World, Awakening

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• I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder.

  Salma Hayek

  Beauty, Love Yourself, Your Beautiful

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• Truth Will Set U Free is about honesty. My philosophic belief that ultimately being true to yourself is liberating, with every individual's inalienable right to be who they are without fear or recrimination.

  Corey Hart

  Honesty, Be True To Yourself, Belief

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• You have to set your own boundaries. We all do. You have to self-check. At the same time, the transparency is liberating. It is so much easier than screening every little thing you do and say. There's got to be some fluidity to self-expression without constantly editing things. The older I get, the more confident I feel in that. The filters are just flung away... lets face it, filters interrupt the flow of sincerity. If you're embarrassed about something you've done, then just say it.

  Shania Twain

  Done, Little Things, Sincerity

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Acting for me is liberating. It's almost like therapy, because I grew up in a blue-collar environment where you're not supposed to have feelings. So it's freeing to be in a safe place like a TV or film set where you discover feelings, and where you're supposed to be open and honest with everybody while exposing the weakest parts of you. And then when people congratulate you on revealing the weakest part of who you are, then you start realizing that that might not be weakness. It might be a different kind of strength.

  Kurt Yaeger

  People, Feelings, Acting

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• Some people don't think that what I do is art - but for me art exists by definition. The beautiful and most liberating thing about being an artist is the ability to say that what I make is art. Art exists because the author says so.

  Paul Rusconi

  Beautiful, Art, Thinking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• It's always a bit risky, when you put yourself out there with somebody in a collaboration, but I think we learn things every single time, and we come out of it with a new perspective on writing because everyone's process is different. Unfortunately we don't always get to spend time in the studio with those artists - oftentimes it's just sending files online. But both can be liberating and productive in their own way. Some of the best collaborations happen when you're all in a room together.

  Yukimi Nagano

  Writing, Artist, Thinking

  Source: nyc.brightestyoungthings.com

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• It's kind of liberating to be able to bring your own ideas to things, but it's also a lot of pressure, it's like screenwriting on your feet.

  John C. Reilly

  Feet, Ideas, Pressure

  "Interview: John C. Reilly (Talladega Nights)". Interview with Devin Faraci, trouble.city. August 2, 2006.

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• Sometimes it takes courage and experience to allow yourself to actually go into being someone that you're not, and it's the most liberating thing to let go. I do think that's why I love acting - it's being someone that you're not. And sometimes you're really scared of it, and then once you let yourself go there, it's the best thing ever.

  Diane Kruger

  Letting Go, Thinking, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's quite liberating to have a director stand beside the camera and say: "Do this now, and do that now..." It's also a bit sordid but it liberates an actor, I think.

  James McAvoy

  Thinking, Cameras, Directors

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Self-importance is a trap, because the moment we start to think that we actually matter is the moment when things start to go wrong. The truth is that you are supremely unimportant and nothing matters. All of man's striving is for nothing; all effort is wasted. To realize that everything is meaningless is tremendously liberating, since it then leaves us completely free to create our own lives and ignore the plans that others have for us.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Men, Thinking, Self

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• I have no illusions about my position in this world as an actor or anything like that. I'm very realistic. Reality is a very liberating thing.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Reality, Actors, World

  "Anthony Hopkins Interview THE RITE; Plus Updates on THOR, 360, Composing Music, Painting, and a lot More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. January 26, 2011.

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• Gratitude is liberating. It is subversive. It helps us to realize that we are sufficient, and that realization frees us.

  Joanna Macy

  Gratitude, Realization, Helping

  Joanna Macy (2007). “World as Lover, World as Self: A Guide to Living Fully in Turbulent times”, p.72, Parallax Press

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• The wonderful thing about digital process is that I can be cast in films that I would never be cast in. If I have it in my soul to play the character it doesn't matter what my face looks like, or my age. It's really liberating.

  Jim Carrey

  Character, Play, Soul

  "Disney's A Christmas Carol - Jim Carrey interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• There's something exciting and incredibly liberating for an artist to finish something Friday night and the world hears it Friday night instead of eight months later after marketing people and all those assholes get involved.

  Trent Reznor

  Friday, Artist, Night

  "Trent Reznor and David Fincher". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 27, 2010.

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