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• It is essential that our love be liberating, not possessive. We must at all times give those we love the freedom to be themselves. Love affirms the other as other. It does not possess and manipulate another as mine.

  John Powell

  Love Is, Giving, Self Love

  John Powell (1989). “Through Seasons of the Heart”, Thomas More Association

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• Sometimes I get so bold and I'm so confident about what I'm doing that I actually try to be more of a dork because it's a really liberating feeling to experience what it's like to not care.

  John Mayer

  Feelings, Trying, Care

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• People always talk about good time rock and roll, Chuck Berry or whatever, like this liberating force for feeling good. But what I need in my life is to be liberated into feeling bad. Not sad. I have plenty of sad. What I need is a place where I can spray anger in sparks like a gnarled piece of electrical cable. Just be mad at stuff and soak in the helplessness.

  John Darnielle

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, People

  John Darnielle (2008). “Black Sabbath's Master of Reality”, p.75, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I believe, if done correctly, eliminating Saddam and liberating Iraq could be the ‘Normandy Invasion’ or ‘fall of the Berlin Wall’ of our generation...the Iraqi people are eager to be rid of Saddam, and there is equally encouraging evidence that republican principles could thrive there.

  Pete Hegseth

  Wall, Believe, Fall

  "Meet Kagan’s Astroturf Military Attackers" by Adam Weinstein, www.motherjones.com. June 30, 2010.

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• It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.

  Ron Livingston

  Jobs, Work, Fire

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

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• In 3-D filmmaking, I can take images and manipulate them infinitely, as opposed to taking still photographs and laying them one after the other. I move things in all directions. It's such a liberating experience.

  George Lucas

  Moving, Photograph, Filmmaking

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• Failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. This way, it is about answering to yourself.

  Sara Blakely

  Trying, Outcomes, Way

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• Sometimes identity can be your salvation. It can be liberating to find your place in the world, but at some point, identity can hold you back.

  Justin Simien

  Identity, World, Sometimes

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Because there is liberating power in each and every truth, the one who walks in the truth in all his ways will be set free. A lie, no matter how "little," gives the powers of darkness an opening for attack, but the truth chases them far away.

  Johan Oscar Smith

  Life Changing, Lying, Giving

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• I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it.

  Annette Bening

  Soul, Acting, Hearing

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. October 18, 2004.

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• It's as interesting to me as someday getting to play in some beautiful period piece where the costumes are from a completely different era. This feels as extreme as that, and that's really liberating. It's really liberating to just go 180 from what my life is like. I love that! I love not having to think about clothes. I wanted to wear a uniform when I was in high school, but I couldn't. I was like, "It would be so much easier!"

  Taylor Schilling

  Beautiful, School, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Listening to people discussing a novel can be very interesting, if you've read whatever novel is being discussed. No one, it seems, ever says, "This is a great book but I didn't like it." Taking a little time to think about why this might be has been very liberating.

  Zia Haider Rahman

  Book, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When you don't have to depend upon your creative work for money, you'll never really have to compromise... Knowing that is hugely liberating as well as artistically clarifying... Being practical about where your money comes from means you can be romantic about your writing... I believe that a healthy society is one that supports its artists, but I also know that that privilege, of being only an artist, is afforded to just a small number. Most of us have to find something else - or live a highly disciplined life, which I'm not willing to do.

  Hanya Yanagihara

  Believe, Writing, Mean

  Interview with Alexis Cheung, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.

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• I'm really happy in my own skin. There's a lot of judgment that can come from outside sometimes, and there's media scrutiny that is placed on a lot of women in the public eye, and I just couldn't care less. I really couldn't care less. 'I would sometimes say in my twenties, 'oh, I couldn't care less', but I think I probably did. Now I genuinely don't and that's a lovely, liberating thing to experience.

  Kate Winslet

  Eye, Thinking, Media

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• Life goes on and the truth changes; this just happens to be the way life is. What was once true is often no longer true just a little while later. Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation.

  Brad Blanton

  Yesterday, Jail, Bullshit

  Brad Blanton (1996). “Radical Honesty: How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth”, Dell

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• Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try to talk about ways of working toward redeeming what's wrong, because they'll look sentimental and naive to all the weary ironists. Irony's gone from liberating to enslaving. ... The postmodern founders' patricidal work was great, but patricide produces orphans, and no amount of revelry can make up for the fact that writers my age have been literary orphans throughout our formative years.

  David Foster Wallace

  Writing, Artist, Years

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• A curse on him who begins in gentleness. He shall finish in insipidity and cowardice, and shall never step foot in the great liberating current of Christianity.

  Andre Trocme

  Feet, Steps, Christianity

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• We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more liberating, than the claims of any religion.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Discovery, World, Physics

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• Every normal human being (and not merely the 'artist') has an inexhaustible store of buried images in his subconscious, it is merely a matter of courage or liberating procedures ... of voyages into the unconscious, to bring pure and unadulterated found objects to light.

  Max Ernst

  Artist, Light, Found Objects

  Max Ernst, Ian Turpin, Julian Stallabrass (1993). “Ernst”, Phaidon Press

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• Creating art (music, books, films, etc.) can be beautiful and liberating, but trying to sell art, well, that is the movie business. There are few winners, and lots and lots of losers.

  Ronnie Apteker

  Beautiful, Art, Book

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.

  Hugh Laurie

  Able, Exciting

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• To be honest, I wasn't crazy about the kind of poetry I found in high school English books. I didn't get really excited about poetry until I discovered Lorca in college. If it wasn't for surrealism, I'm not sure I'd have become so involved in poetry. I was attracted by the extravagant imagery and elements of fantasy. This was in the '70s and it seemed to fit the psychedelic mood of the times. I found it liberating.

  Elaine Equi

  Crazy, Book, School

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It certainly was an important moment for me, that realization that I was not going to get what I wanted. It was very freeing. I keep using that word "freeing" or "liberating." I feel like Houdini sometimes, like I'm just getting out of one set of shackles after another, hanging upside down inside a burlap bag with handcuffs on. Hopefully one day, I'm going to get out of this tank of water.

  Alison Bechdel

  Water, Important, One Day

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny. It's the only one. It's based on thousands of years of human experience. There is nothing narrow about the conservative philosophy. It's a liberating philosophy. It is a magnificent philosophy. It is a philosophy for the ages, for all times.

  Mark Levin

  Philosophy, Years, Age

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• The singularity of Islam is its universality. As American citizens and as Muslims, you need to show there is something specific, namely our moral singularity. We believe there is one God and this one God is pushing us to reach universal values by liberating ourselves from our ego and by serving humanity. We must be involved in this by all means necessary, in a nonviolent way, through the legal, media, economic and cultural systems. We cannot achieve this if there is no courage, if we are not ready to sacrifice.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Believe, Mean, Sacrifice

  "Tariq Ramadan: My Absence Would Certainly Be The Most Powerful Speech I Have Ever Given At ISNA". Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. August 14, 2014.

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