Liberating Quotes - Page 4

• This year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth.

  Margaret Halsey

  Years, Ideas, Next

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• The worst has happened ... it's rather liberating.

  Ruth Rendell

  Loss, Disaster, Worst

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• I had a moment when I first got on Supernatural when I was like, omg, people are paying attention to me and I have fans, maybe I should cultivate an image and like try to seem really cool. I had this sort of moment of being commercially self conscious, and it took me maybe a month to realize, no, this is just not fucking who I am... Here's a picture of me in drag, fuck it - which is, by the way, so much more liberating and relaxing... There's not a more surefire way to give a stifled boring empty vapid meaningless piece of interview. Everything that comes out of your mouth sucks if you're trying to say the right thing...

  Misha Collins

  Fire, Self, People

  "Misha Collins Then and Now - Our Reciprocal Interviews with Castiel's Alter Ego". Interview with Lynn Zubernis, fangasmthebook.wordpress.com. March 12, 2012.

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• The popular prophets have underestimated how strange the truth can be. The human brain, that 'perfect instrument,' that 'fabulous electronic dance,' can be our open sesame to an infinitely richer life than we have believed possible. The fluent, liberating, creative, healing attributes of the altered states can be incorporated into consciousness. We are just beginning to realize that we can truly open the doors of perception and creep out of the cavern.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Healing, Doors, Perfect

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• we can wake up one morning and find that the technology of this virtual, inter-connected world wasn't the liberating force we thought, but binds us ever more tightly under the control of the money men.

  Anita Roddick

  Morning, Men, Technology

  Anita Roddick (2001). “Take It Personally: How to Make Conscious Choices to Change the World”, HarperThorsons

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• I always wanted to do an animated movie. I find it to be incredibly liberating as a way of telling a story.

  Gore Verbinski

  Stories, Way, Animated

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• We are one people despite the ostensible rifts, cracks, and differences between the American and Soviet democracies. We are one people and it is not in our interests that the West should liberate the East, for in doing this and in liberating the enslaved nations, the West would inevitably deprive Jewry of the Eastern half of its world power.

  Chaim Weizmann

  Differences, People, Democracy

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• The Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant.

  Theodor Adorno

  Men, Earth, Enlightened

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• I noticed every time I spent a lot of time in the bathtub, I would just get fantastic realizations about myself, and they were so valuable and liberating.

  Leonard Orr

  Realization, Fantastic, Valuable

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• The weird thing is that working within an established story was actually kind of liberating. You know the beginning and middle and end, more or less, so there's less pressure to figure all that out.

  Dave Eggers

  Stories, Pressure, Kind

  "Dave Eggers on 'Max at Sea'" by Cressida Leyshon, www.newyorker.com. August 14, 2009.

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• The whole Melrose series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth.

  Edward St Aubyn

  Ideas, Telling The Truth, Whole

  "Edward St Aubyn: 'Writing is horrible'". Interview with Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2011.

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• Sometimes the intensity and the grind of doing television can wear you down, but at the same time there's something about the repetition, the sheer mass of work that you do that's also liberating.

  Simon Baker

  Television, Sometimes, Grind

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

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• You know the most important thing the Americans did for Iraq apart from liberating the country from Saddam was helping Iraq reduce its debt. The United States worked very hard to reduce 80 percent of Iraqi debt.

  Ahmed Chalabi

  Country, Iraq, Important

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• It's great to go on your own and discover new things just for yourself, to meet new people and all that. If you're all on your own, then there is nobody there to guide you and you have to make all the decisions for yourself. It's quite liberating in a way.

  Dido Armstrong

  People, Decision, Goes On

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• In liberating Iraq, we have rid the nation and the rest of the world from the danger of Saddam Hussein.

  Elizabeth Dole

  Iraq, World, Hussein

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• It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Plot, Steps, Realizing

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• The liberating encounter with God/ess is always an encounter with our authentic selves resurrected from underneath the alienated self. It is not experienced against, but in and through relationships, healing our broken relations with our bodies, with other people, with nature.

  Rosemary Radford Ruether

  God, Healing, Self

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• I spent a lot of time taking acting lessons Actors have no inhibitions, and Im inhibited by everything. To be able to make fun of yourself is a skill and a liberating experience.

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy

  Fun, Skills, Acting

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• What a dazzlingly generous, gloriously unpredictable book! Maggie Nelson shows us what it means to be real, offering a way of thinking that is as challenging as it is liberating. She invites us to 'pay homage to the transitive' and enjoy 'a becoming in which one never becomes.' Reading The Argonauts made me happier and freer.

  Eula Biss

  Real, Reading, Book

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• [In making music] it's nice to not have a goal, to not have a set format. It's very liberating to just get out of your comfort zone and be in a new space.

  Robyn

  Nice, Space, Goal

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• There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.

  Bob Kerrey

  Fighting, Force

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• [Sunbathing nude] was a liberating experience. It felt unbelievably crazy to take off all my clothes and play in the sun. I've not had that much fun in so long.

  Amy Grant

  Fun, Crazy, Play

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• For all the practical purposes of life, truth might as well be in a prison as in the folio of a schoolman; and those who release her from her cobwebbed shelf and teach her to live with men have the merit of liberating, if not of discovering, her.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Purpose, Might

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.199

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• I'd lost my family to my years of failing as a songwriter. All I had were bills, child support, and grief. And I was about to get fired. It looked like I'd trashed my act. But there was something liberating about it. By not having to live up to people's expectations, I was somehow free.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Children, Grief, Years

  "Q&A with Kris Kristofferson". Interview with Andy Langer, www.esquire.com. February 27, 2006.

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• I apologize to everyone who was offended by my insensitive tweet about the situation in Egypt. I've dedicated my life to raising awareness about serious social issues, and in hindsight my attempt at humor regarding a nation liberating themselves against oppression was poorly timed and absolutely inappropriate.

  Kenneth Cole

  Egypt, Issues, Serious

  "Egypt protests". www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2011.

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