Liberating Quotes - Page 6

• I could go on for days about why I love yoga. One of my favorite parts is I can't think about anything else other than doing what the teacher tells me to do. For me, someone who has a million things going on at any given moment, that kind of surrender is liberating. I also learn so much about myself - my limitations, my potential, how to be mindful of an injury.

  Donna Karan

  Teacher, Yoga, Thinking

  "Donna Karan's New Fragrance Is Zen in a Bottle" by Kristina Rodulfo, www.elle.com. September 16, 2016.

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• The greatest thing that ever happened to (my career) was the breakdown of the record companies, because there were no more stupid questions about how many hits are on the next record. It was very liberating.

  John Mellencamp

  Stupid, Careers, Records

  "Mellencamp's independent stand". Interview with Greg Kot, articles.chicagotribune.com. November 19, 2010.

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• Getting on the road and driving along a road at night, or even in the daytime and seeing the oceans or whatever, is always liberating.

  Chuck D

  Ocean, Night, Driving

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 12, 2012.

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• You take up energy towards someone because you think loving your enemy doesn't just mean caving into your enemy. It means first of all liberating yourself.

  Robert Thurman

  Mean, Thinking, Loving You

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There's something profoundly liberating about giving, yet we don't do it often enough. It begs the question: why not? For some of us, our demanding schedules overtake our time to volunteer. For others, our fear of economic instability manifests a mindset dominated by pernicious lies like, "You can't afford to give" and "If you give, you won't have enough". However, truth of the matter is we simply cannot afford to not give back!

  Jen Lilley

  Lying, Volunteer, Giving

  "Count Your Blessings and Watch them Multiply" by Jen Lilley, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I am dealing with people with both sides. I see people who are liberating themselves but they want to forget the world. And I see people who want to liberate the world but they forget themselves. Neither is the way I want to go.

  Tariq Ramadan

  People, Sides, World

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• Very often when I see people who are perceived to be, or who call themselves progressives, sometimes I see an imbalance. Yes I understand the courage in their mind but I don't see the spirituality in their heart, good you are questioning the limits, but what about yourself, are you also liberating yourself?

  Tariq Ramadan

  Heart, People, Mind

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• We have to free the Muslim mind from the obsession with limits and rules and forgetting the path and objective. This is truly a liberating process, and for me this is Islam: liberation from the ego, and in this case liberating ourselves from the wrong understanding of the religion.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Understanding, Ego, Mind

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• Two sons, they'll both be presidents after they win their Nobel Prizes. And the daughters, they'll be prima ballerinas before they become the president of Princeton and start their Internet company. And I just started to think about What's the conventional load of those expectations you carry around? You have to pull them out one by one and smash them in the corner. You realize the pile is quite high. But in a way, it becomes oddly liberating to do that.

  Ron Suskind

  Daughter, Son, Winning

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• It was very liberating to be able to sing in English. It had a different resonance, different images. It was like being a stranger in a foreign land, which was helpful.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Land, Different, Able

  Interview by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

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• Also, with acting and dancing I portray a predetermined character and story for the most part, with music I have the creative freedom to create a song on a whim with whomever I choose and at whatever time I choose to do it. It's more liberating artistically and that's why I've stuck with it. It's a good balance to be able to portray a character and also be myself in avenues that I'm passionate about.

  Alyson Stoner

  Song, Character, Dancing

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• In fact, to me it's liberating to not think of identity as some organic property that we have to find and stick to, but actually something that is constructed, or that's imposed, that we can then counter by taking a different route and re-dressing it, and then re-dressing it again, and then re-dressing it again.

  Todd Haynes

  Thinking, Identity, Different

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What i'm trying to get at is that to me nothing felt glamorous or exciting or sexually liberating about it. I also think the amount of money you can make escorting is exaggerated (it wasn't uncommon for me to see ads for escorts for 40-60$/hr where I live.)

  Marie Calloway

  Thinking, Trying, Escorting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's really liberating and fun to be writing stuff for myself, and really have the freedom to say what I want to say and not really have to think about what somebody else is going to say or have to edit myself to speak from someone else's vision.

  Bonnie McKee

  Fun, Writing, Thinking

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• One of the most liberating personal discoveries I have made is the knowledge that whenever I am upset, there is another way of looking at any situation, person, or condition.

  Lee L Jampolsky

  Discovery, Upset, Way

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• It's actually a very liberating thing to have a creative community, which is something that we all kind of desperately search for and find in the ways that we can.

  Kate Tempest

  Creative, Community, Way

  "Personality Clash: Kate Tempest x Loyle Carner". www.clashmusic.com. May 10, 2016.

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• My guess is that liberating the fossil fuel industry to frack anywhere they want will drive down the rate at which we're converting to sun and wind. And it's entirely a rate problem at this point.

  Bill McKibben

  Wind, Fuel, Want

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There's always the day where you do the effort noises, so there's a lot of grunts, huffing and puffing, pretending like you're hopping over things, pretending like you're getting hit, and pretending like you're kicking. If any of that was recorded, it's some of the silliest stuff I'll ever do, as an actor, but it's fun and liberating, in a way, 'cause no one can see me. I videotape myself doing it sometimes, to send to my friends just to remind us how ridiculous our jobs are.

  Dave Franco

  Fun, Effort, Ridiculous

  Source: collider.com

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• I underwent a whole process of slowly letting go of idiosyncrasies and habits and embellishments and everything extraneous to the essentials that I'm unwilling to let go of. I never dreamed that I would be making black-and-white paintings with so little embellishment. But it's been liberating in many ways to let go of that and yet see what I did want to retain.

  Caio Fonseca

  Letting Go, Painting, Habit

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• This ongoing coexistence which makes life sensational. The eyes have this ability to flip around what they see from one second to another, to see something as an object, and then as a design. That's really liberating, and I try to convey that in my work, that your eyes are free and you are free to use them.

  Wolfgang Tillmans

  Eye, Design, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's something really liberating about feeling great in what you work out in because when you feel great in the gym, then you are just going to do a better job. You'll feel more comfortable, which will allow you to push your limits.

  Demi Lovato

  Work Out, Feelings, Gym

  Source: wwd.com

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• Playing villains is very liberating because unlike the leading man, nothing is expected of you. Leading men have to look good, they have to behave in a certain way, they have to fulfill an audience's expectations. But as a bad guy, you have free license to take the audience by surprise. And that's what audiences want - they want unpredictability from their villains. The villain's job is to subvert it.

  Alfred Molina

  Men, Expectations, Guy

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The whole appeal of dance music is being liberated because music is liberating and it's not about club culture or the social aspect of playing the mating game or whatever you're doing at a club. It's more about the euphoric aspect of listening to music.

  Memory Tapes

  Listening, Culture, Music Is

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In music in general, you're always getting a lot of information, buts it's most important to have honest communication. It's always important to understand that we can do so much individually if we connect with one another and have honest conversations. As scary as it is, it can be very liberating. Staying connected to the people you love and staying connected to the things that really matter has been my biggest lesson.

  Jillian Hervey

  Communication, People, Scary

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• I never felt like a happy-go-lucky ingenue to begin with. And parts are written better when you're older. When you're young, you're written to be an ingenue, and you're written to be a quality. You're actually not written to be a person, you're written for your youth to inspire someone else, usually a man. So I find it just much more liberating.

  Laura Linney

  Men, Inspire, Quality

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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