You can be imaginative, you have the technology to convert your vision, you have the freedom to write the kind of stories you want to tell beyond the set formulas. Also, you have varied platforms to tell different kinds of stories.

Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

The reverberation of the freedom of making 'Schizopolis' absolutely resulted in 'Out of Sight' and everything that followed.

I've never had anything but the freedom to do what I wanted just as long as it made me happy.

One of the greatest gifts God ever gave to humanity was that of liberty. We love freedom and bloom under it. We cannot and should not try to force people to live by a certain religious code. To do so negates our free will.

A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.

A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world.

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.

There's a lot of freedom in having nothing. You don't have responsibility. You have nobody to answer to. But I'd rather deal without the poverty.

I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.

If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.

Get in the race car do what I do then go home. We don't have freedom to do anything anymore.

Freedom in America was not always flat. Racism made it un-flat, so that some people had privileges over other people.

A lot of the time, as an actor, you don't have the freedom to change what your lines are, and they can often be very unnatural or difficult to portray in a real light.

I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

I think about freedom and the urgency around our imagination. If you can't imagine it, you can't fight for it.

Even after Jim Crow was supposed to not be a part of the South anymore, there were still ways in which you couldn't get away from it. And I think once I got to Brooklyn, there was this freedom we had.