Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some of them tend to take that freedom to live a little more openly or a little more dangerously, sometimes a lot more self-destructively, than other people.
— Anne Roiphe
Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.
— Anna Quindlen
The most important issue we have to deal with is freedom of movement.
— Anna Lindh
The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.
— Anna Deavere Smith
I think we recognize as Americans there are certain things that are just primary to the freedoms and liberties that we enjoy here and religious freedom is one of the most important things we as Americans cherish.
— Ann Romney
As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and write about different ages, for different ages.
— Ann Brashares
That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.
— Anish Kapoor
The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.
— Angelina Jolie
We will be very persistent when it comes to enforcing freedom, justice, and self-determination on the European continent.
— Angela Merkel
We know that our life of freedom is stronger than terror.
The basis for all human relationships and where we derive our greatest strength and power, trust is single-handedly the most powerful source of positive energy and, once in place, unlocks a freedom and peace to explore.
— Angela Ahrendts
If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you're already hamstrung because you don't have any freedom.
— Andy Richter
I'm an exile. My father had the courage to leave with his wife, his mother and three children under twelve. It took more courage to leave, to sacrifice everything for freedom, than to stay.
— Andy Garcia
Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.
— Andrew Young
There's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years.
— Andrew Wiles
In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.
— Andrew Sullivan
In 2009, the American Library Association recorded 460 challenges reported to the Office of Intellectual Freedom.
— Andrew Shaffer
I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom.
— Anne McCaffrey
I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.
The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.
— Anna Julia Cooper
I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.
The people who founded America, who fought for its freedom, did not look to anyone else to get them out of their troubles. They took matters into their own hands and answered only to God and their peers. In today's world, sacrifice and hardship are not in the everyday language, and instant gratification is foremost.
— Ann Rinaldi
But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.
— Anita Roddick
'The Look' is my first documentary, and I enjoyed the freedom of working within a small team.
— Angelina Maccarone
We, in the late '60s, '70s and '80s, are acting like we have just discovered freedom and liberation. But I'm sure that many women have worked for that for such a long time.
— Angeles Mastretta
The G7 - and earlier, the G8 - were a group of countries that shared the same values with regard to freedom and democracy, and through the annexation of Crimea, Russia made it clear at a certain point that these values of keeping the peace, integrity of the borders of a country were not being respected.
My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom.
— Angela Davis
Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
— Aneurin Bevan
It's like freedom of speech - they can't tell you not to do it. When no one will put you on at a club or venue, you can go to the street, just start singing, and get a lot of good feedback from people as they walk by. I got really good at lip reading and seeing if a song is working. It was a good way to start.
— Andy Grammer
If you have the right actors and you can give them the freedom to explore, you've done a lot of your work as a director.
There can be no democracy without truth. There can be no truth without controversy, there can be no change without freedom. Without freedom there can be no progress.
People fought hard for freedoms; they didn't fight hard for one mentality. If you really talk about what the country was founded on and what those people are protecting who went to war and fought these wars and give us our freedoms and are fighting for our freedoms, I think you have to really ask yourself what is involved in freedom.
— Andrew Whitworth
No one much wants to be belittled, but we tolerate slurs surprisingly often for ourselves; for our lionised children, we demand freedom from insult.
— Andrew Solomon
I'm a big believer in freedom and people's rights to express themselves and not have government interfere in that type of thing.
— Andrew Scheer
I don't think I am that hands-on. I'm much more of a believer in finding a great team of people and trusting them to follow their instincts. They work better when they feel they have freedom and they are trusted.
— Anna Wintour
It's great to have the freedom to enjoy your work and not feel like you're leaving your other life behind.
— Anna Paquin
Being pregnant is a conundrum. You have this freedom, because it's a wonderful time that a human being is growing inside of you, and it is truly magical. On the other hand, your body changes.
— Anna Gunn
All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.
— Anna C. Brackett
Beauty of mind creates freedom. Freedom of mind creates beauty.
— Ann Demeulemeester
Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
— Anita Brookner
I prefer directing to acting. There is huge freedom that comes from being behind the camera. It brings a lot of responsibilities as well but is intensely rewarding.
Whether it's freedom to express, freedom to live, freedom to earn, freedom to thrive, freedom to learn, whatever it is, I want to make sure that I'm a part of these spaces and opening doors.
— Angela Rye
As a 7-year-old child, I saw the Wall being erected. No one - although it was a stark violation of international law - believed at the time that one ought to intervene militarily in order to protect citizens of the GDR and whole Eastern bloc, of the consequences of that - namely, to live in lack of freedom for many, many years.
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
In The Police, in a trio situation - which I've come back to now - it's just so wide open that it does actually provide this arena where you can play with a certain freedom.
— Andy Summers
Freedom is not negotiable.
The prescience of the founding fathers continues to astonish me. They were freedom fighters. They made America. They gave us this magical country. They also were slaveowners - which is confusing to their legacy. How could such brilliant men have only secured freedom for themselves, but not their wives or their slaves?
— Andy Dunn
Our children lost our direction because they have been compromised. They have found freedom at the ballot box, and then they have taken on plastic chains around their minds and souls and mortgage their future on credit cards. They have to learn better - they have to learn the value of ideas and health as opposed to wealth.
Freedom is a part of protest as well.
I'm just kind of taking a break now and enjoying the freedom of making my own choices. When you're on a television show for six years, they run your schedule.
— Andrew Shue