There's a freedom to being young that is harder to come by as time goes on.
— Dave Matthews
Many people don't understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz... And that is really the idea of democracy - freedom within the Constitution or discipline. You don't just get out there and do anything you want.
— Dave Brubeck
Money grants you freedom, I guess.
— Dasha Zhukova
We need to start standing up for freedom and liberty.
— Darryl Glenn
The novelist has permission to do whatever she chooses to supercharge whatever's interesting in her story. This is also known as freedom.
— Darin Strauss
Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.
— Danny Glover
Religious freedom is already protected in the United States. It's in our Constitution. It's in most state constitutions.
— Dannel Malloy
I'm never going to be in something as commercially successful as 'Harry Potter' ever again. It's impossible. So that gives me incredible freedom to go off and make the slightly off-the-wall films that I want to make.
— Daniel Radcliffe
The rule of law, democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of expression - we cannot take them for granted. They do not exist willy-nilly across the world; they are very rare.
— Daniel Lubetzky
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
When we think back at our youth, we always remember the feeling of freedom... that you actually believe in the world. Even if it goes well for you in life, you can never attain that freedom in your imagination of what you think life could be. We are tainted.
— Daniel Espinosa
I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.
— Daniel Boulud
All that money stuff was so strange; all it ever meant to me was freedom from worry. I'm happier now than I've ever been but I still wish I had that money.
— Dana Plato
There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit.
— Dana Perino
I often think that the Greatest Generation gave birth to the Crappiest Generation, the stinky hippies with their slacktivism and demand for government welfare in the name of freedom.
— Dana Loesch
None of us had any idea of how successful Downton was going to be. I thought I was signing up for another period drama that had a slightly modern feel. It had a freedom about it because it was coming out of the head of Julian Fellowes. Anything could happen and generally did.
— Dan Stevens
A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
— Dan Rather
I still do miss the freedom to play any kind of character I wanted to play.
— Dave Foley
Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.
They have the ability to take a person's freedom from them. On certain situations, they have the ability to take a person's reputation. And under certain circumstances, they have the authority to take a person's life.
— Daryl Gates
We need to show the fact that when you start thinking about freedom and liberty, personal responsibility, and opportunity to achieve the American Dream, the Republican party is the best party to do that.
In fashion, there are so many gangs, if you identify too much with one, you get caught - I would lose my freedom.
— Daphne Guinness
I think that there's a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortunately, you don't have the money, necessarily, to get the orchestras in there to play a lot of stuff. But, you have a lot more freedom, very often.
— Danny Elfman
The best part of being on your own is not really having to answer to anybody. Not that when you're in a relationship you should really have to answer to somebody then, either. Just the freedom of not checking in with someone all the time is nice.
— Danielle Fishel
That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers' and the nation's perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions, and of its implicit editorial positions as expressed by the publisher's choice of people who are given the freedom to write opinion columns.
— Daniel Okrent
Russia and China have maintained that people prize stability over freedom and that as long as the central State creates conditions for economic growth, people will be complacent and will be willing to literally sell away their rights. In fact, this very economic growth will eventually catch up with these regimes.
Every human on the planet is descended from both slaves and slave owners. What makes Britain unusual is not that we engaged in the disgusting trade, but that we eliminated it. Our political institutions led us, earlier than many, to the conclusion that freedom was the highest virtue.
— Daniel Hannan
Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.
— Daniel Dennett
Our pain hides beneath these fluttering, random thoughts that run through our heads in an endless loop. But there's so much freedom in getting to know what's under there, the bedrock.
— Dani Shapiro
We are so blessed to be here in America. We have freedom and opportunity unlike anywhere else in the world.
Being a conservative has given me clarity; it's given me freedom - my mind is free; therefore, my heart is lighter. And that's a gift from God that I believe we have an obligation to share with others.
The tea party wants to empower people with opportunity and the freedom for the individual to pursue success and keep the fruits of their success.
One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.
— Dan Savage
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.
— Dan Quayle
Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States.
I believe in the freedom of choice in both life and death.
That slave narratives existed at all implied a satisfactory conclusion to the journey - the attainment of literacy, the escape to the place where one could reflect on the experience of bondage and the flight to freedom, and, in the early days of the slave trade, the conversion to Christianity.
— Darryl Pinckney
We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression.
— Dario Fo
I believe in democracy. I also believe in religious freedom.
— Danny K. Davis
We toured for close to three years after 'Undertow' came out, so by the time we started to work on 'AEnima,' we had matured as functional musicians, and that changes your sound completely. Once you have that kind of freedom, an idea will come into your head and you can do it justice.
— Danny Carey
I love the freedom of having my own space and my own place and doing things on my terms, and not really having to think about anybody else's schedule.
My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World.
— Daniel Nathans
The foreign press seems obsessed with the Freedom Tower, as if it was the only thing going on here. In fact, we're trying to keep a huge juggling act in balance, with the tower as just one of the many balls in play.
— Daniel Libeskind
Just the concept of personal freedom within a democracy, for instance, is a relatively young idea - only about 300 years old in this country.
— Daniel Greenberg
I always had a lot of fun in America, with much more freedom than if I had tried to cook in France. I wouldn't have the same motivation or inspiration, and I wouldn't have cooked for the same kind of people in France, so it wouldn't have given me this edge I had in America.
Our port facilities should have the freedom to levy a market-based container fee which will provide new revenue and make our system more equitable to the American taxpayer and American manufacturers.
— Dana Rohrabacher
I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
There is no freedom in peaceful slavery.
If you just kind of live a regular life and make good 'Hollywood' money, you have a certain freedom.
— Dana Carvey
I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx, Brooklyn, but loved America. And they told me every day it's the greatest country in the world.
— Dan Rosensweig