You want to give the person as much freedom as you can within the boundaries of being a responsible producer with a contract to a studio. It's about giving as much freedom as you can, and the more the filmmaker proves he or she is on the track that you feel good about, then you just kind of watch dailies.
— Wes Craven
Charter laws do something really important. They give educators the freedom and flexibility that they need to attain results. But we also have to invest a lot in the leadership pipeline to take advantage of that freedom and flexibility.
— Wendy Kopp
If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
— Wendell Willkie
But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.
You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy says, 'Yes, where are you going?' And he says, 'I want a ticket to nowhere.' I thought: that's it. The freedom to do that. I want a ticket to nowhere.
— Wayne Shorter
Our Founding Fathers knew that without Second Amendment freedom, all of our freedoms could be in jeopardy.
— Wayne LaPierre
These zealots for disarming individual Americans choose not to recognize the basic notion that defines American freedom: the difference between a good guy with a gun and a bad guy with a gun.
In all of history, there has always been a time and a place where patriots rise up against the decree of the elites and shout, 'No more... get your hands off my freedom!'
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
— Warren E. Burger
The necessity to conceptualise has to come very early on, and defining a vector of development for that film also at the beginning of the process will allow you much more freedom as you go along.
— Walter Salles
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.
— Walter Lippmann
It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field.
— Walter Jon Williams
Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.
— Walt Whitman
There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. The endowments of wealthy white men have developed great institutions of learning for the Negro, but the freedom of action on the part of these same universities has been curtailed in proportion as they are indebted to white philanthropies.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
— Voltaire
While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.
— Vladimir Lenin
If something comes along that is totally outside of horror, fine, but I find there's an immense amount of freedom within the genre.
I grew up in China, but I live in the U.S. and I want my children to understand what's going on over there. They ask me sometimes, 'Are we Chinese or Australians?' My family are in L.A., New York and China, and they have the freedom to go back and forth, which is really, really nice.
— Wendi Deng Murdoch
Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.
Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
— Wendell Phillips
If you aren't free to protect yourself when the government puts its thumb on that freedom, then you're not free at all.
The media try to make rank-and-file Americans feel guilty about buying a gun. The enemies of freedom demonize gun buyers and portray us as social lepers. But we know the truth. We know that responsible gun ownership exemplifies what is good and right about America.
What gun owners would support policies that are blatantly designed to strip them of their constitutional freedom? To put it bluntly: gullible gun owners.
Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
— Wayne Dyer
I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.
— Wanda Sykes
The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations before this, but they were mostly original stories where I had complete freedom to evolve in the direction I wanted.
Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.
There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
— Walter Cronkite
Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.
— Wadah Khanfar
Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.
The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine.
— Wendy O. Williams
When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.
Free men are the strongest men.
I believe I and all the Chinese people have such a conviction that China will make continuous progress and the people's wishes for and needs for democracy and freedom are irresistible.
— Wen Jiabao
If you aren't free to protect yourself - when government puts its thumb on that freedom - then you aren't free at all.
The NRA is where you resist, and stand and fight to put America back on track to restore and preserve our individual freedom.
We know a Hillary Clinton White House would be ground zero for a massive attack on our freedom. A revolving door and cash register for every Michael Bloomberg, George Soros and every gun ban group in the world.
People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
— Wayne Coyne
The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity.
— Walter Ulbricht
We Americans look at the last 300 years of history, and we basically see a world that's getting better and better. The rule of freedom expands. The economy develops. We have risen to become the world's greatest power.
— Walter Russell Mead
Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.
— Walter Koenig
There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
— Walter Becker
When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love.
I believe in full freedom for Christians of all denominations.
— Vladimir Zhirinovsky
