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• If a film is very clever and well-written, that’s what gives you freedom as a director.

  Patrice Leconte

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• Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

  Benjamin N. Cardozo

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• I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.

  Tom Stoppard

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• The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

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• Women are allowed more freedoms and we’re fighting for more freedoms, we’re experiencing more freedoms won.

  Pam Grier

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• The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

  Bell hooks

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• Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

  Baruch Spinoza

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• As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.

  Barry White

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• Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.

  Gijs de Vries

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• Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that’s what I’m trying to do.

  Quentin Tarantino

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• The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.

  Gertrude Himmelfarb

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• The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.

  Gerry Spence

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• It is not natural or inevitable that half the world goes hungry; that the freedom of markets trumps protection of the planet; or that citizens’ rights come second to those of corporations.

  Frances O'Grady

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• When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.

  Gerry Adams

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• Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment.

  Gerry Adams

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• Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

  Germaine Greer

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• We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

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• The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone – by trying to act it out.

  Barbara Deming

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• 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

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• President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don’t have it. He didn’t specify how.

  Barbara Boxer

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