Liberating Quotes - Page 3

• For me, language is a freedom. As soon as you have found the words with which to express something, you are no longer incoherent, you are no longer trapped by your own emotions, by your own experiences; you can describe them, you can tell them, you can bring them out of yourself and give them to somebody else. That is an enormously liberating experience.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Giving, Emotion, Language

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• Eat by Choice, Not by Habit combines the author's humor, deep compassion for others and knowledge about food in a way that makes me eager to follow her lead toward healthy eating-and more importantly, toward a healthy attitude about eating. She aptly teaches us all to frame our food issues in a language that is both liberating and comforting.

  Judith Hanson Lasater

  Attitude, Communication, Compassion

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• One of the kind of unexpectedly liberating things of becoming this global fugitive is the fact that you don't worry so much about tomorrow. You think more about today. And unexpectedly, I like that very much.

  Edward Snowden

  Thinking, Worry, Today

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• I like to create a character where you believe, deep down, that they don't really care if they live or die. That's very liberating for the character because, if the character is prepared to die, then they can do anything. It's impossible to stop them.

  Steven Knight

  Believe, Character, Care

  Source: collider.com

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• The smartest thing I did was to stop going online. I'm the sort of person who will just look for the negative - Michael really can't understand it, but that's just the way I am. And with my bipolar thing, that's poison. So I just stopped. Cold turkey. And it's so liberating.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Turkeys, Bipolar, Negative

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• In this frightening, anxious time to be alive it can be liberating to remember that nothing lasts forever. That can focus and invigorate our hopes.

  John K. Samson

  Focus, Forever, Alive

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• Nothing in life is more liberating than to fight for a cause larger than yourself, something that encompasses you but is not defined by your existence alone.

  John McCain

  Fighting, Causes, Life Is

  John McCain, Mark Salter (2000). “Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir”, p.373, Random House

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• Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful, That's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie.

  Helen McCrory

  Lying, Theatre, Cameras

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

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• The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine Regulator. It is the concept of an actual, real world with its liberating, expanding and beautifying possibilities, as against an unreal world, which, with its spirits, oracles, and mean contentment has kept humanity in helpless degradation.

  Emma Goldman

  Atheist, Philosophy, Real

  Emma Goldman (1915). “Mother Earth Bulletin”

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• He is life's liberating force. He is release of limbs and communion through dance. He is laughter, and music in flutes. He is repose from all cares -- he is sleep! When his blood bursts from the grape and flows across tables laid in his honor to fuse with our blood, he gently, gradually, wraps us in shadows of ivy-cool sleep.

  Euripides

  Laughter, Sleep, Blood

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• The Six-Day War laid a foundation of deep hatred toward Israel 50 years ago. I said this at a very early moment back then, when people were chanting about liberating ancestral land. I was quick to say that regardless of the future of these territories, liberated they are not, because the term liberation only applies to human beings and not to land, not to real estate.

  Amos Oz

  Real, War, Israel

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• But 'Playboy' was liberating. I was drawn to it and went for it full throttle.

  LeRoy Neiman

  Playboy, Throttle

  Leroy Neiman (2013). “All Told: My Art and Life Among Athletes, Playboys, Bunnies, and Provocateurs”, p.121, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

  John Updike

  Education, Learning, Years

  John Updike (2012). “Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism”, p.923, Random House

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• In general, being independent is so liberating, you get to create without someone looking over your shoulders.

  Raheem Jarbo

  Independent, Over You, Shoulders

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• There are others who take up that (liberating) role. I have no time to spend for that.

  Mother Teresa

  Roles

  Mattersindia.com Interview, mattersindia.com. September 4, 2016.

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• I get so happy when I write a joke. It's a very satisfying, liberating feeling.

  Rita Rudner

  Writing, Feelings, Jokes

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• Get in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating.

  Joel Salatin

  Kitchen, Tvs, Turns

  "Joel Salatin: Folks, This Ain’t Normal". Interview with Kristin Wartman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2011.

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• The larger the audience the better. The more pockets in the world, the more interesting and exciting because it just makes it that much more liberating. This makes it that much more liberating for the various facets of creativity to be explored.

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

  Creativity, Interesting, Pockets

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• I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.

  Meryl Streep

  Inspirational, Motivational, Thinking

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• "Liberating" is a gay word, so let's phrase it this way: I know everything about me and still manage to be good friends with myself, so nothing anyone says that's truthful about me ever bothers me.

  Jim Goad

  Gay, Good Friend, Way

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• People are saying, "I have a right to my opinion. Don't just keep condescending, telling me what to think." There's something slightly liberating about that, but also it lends itself to being taken advantage of, because in come the demagogues.

  Duncan Green

  Taken, Thinking, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Without a doubt. It's woven into our DNA in a very deep way and so to kind of be smacked in the face with the hypocrisy of the America that we were sold was a liberating and harsh experience.

  Bill Ayers

  Dna, America, Hypocrisy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I find that things don't bother me as much. If I had a bad day on set, it sort of just rolls of my back in a way that it didn't before. So that's where the biggest difference is, stuff that used to get under my skin or that I would worry about or be anxious about just isn't a problem. So in some ways, having a child has been very liberating. I found it very liberating.

  Laura Linney

  Children, Bad Day, Differences

  "MR. HOLMES: Laura Linney Talks Sherlock, and Compares Working on TMNT 2 with CONGO". Interview with Brian Formo, collider.com. July 14, 2015.

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• You reach a point in life where you realize that you might as well do what you need to do, because your being loved or not being loved is really a function of the people you encounter and not of yourself. That is an immensely liberating insight.

  Erica Jong

  Confidence, People, Encounters

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• Transparence is the highest, most liberating value in art - and in criticism - today. Transparence means experiencing the luminousness of the thing in itself, of things being what they are.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Mean, Criticism

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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