Alan Taylor Quotes

I value my independence a lot, and the thought of having to lose that due to age or any other reason terrifies me.

Those songs are about getting out; they're not about getting out of family. It wasn't about how family life was curtailing because I didn't know family life.

It's not that I don't want to become famous or that I'm obsessed by my work as an actress, but it's all about not limiting myself, such as putting myself in a little jail that I can escape from.

We are free to yield to truth.

I remember the moment when it hit me. I was walking down Amsterdam Avenue on the Upper West Side, and it felt like I was literally walking out of a jail cell that I had been in. At that moment, I realized I could shave if I wanted. It was up to me and no one else.

If I'm free, it's because I'm always running.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

The more liberty you give away the more you will have.

Liberation is not deliverance.

I think one of the greatest gifts you can give to someone is just access to the possibility of freedom that you don't have to be totally depressed and enslaved by your own environment.

The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.

The nation is formed through the law of nature alone. Government stems from the will of nation. The nation stands before all things and is the source of all things. Its will is always law. Above it and before it is but the law of nature alone. By virtue of its very existence, the nation is all things that it may be. The nation cannot surrender its right to a tyrant.

I had much rather starve in England, a free woman, than be a slave for the best man that ever breathed upon the American continent

Who loseth his freedom, he loseth all.

Many a boomerang does not return but chooses freedom instead.

I'm doing very well outside the cage.

The feeling of having no choice or no say is a fear of mine, partly because the idea of loosening oneself from the burden and responsibility of choice and consequence is so intoxicating.

I think that's an idea that's always appealed to us - to let something go where it wants to.

I hadn't gone to high school. I left Minnesota, I left home, I was on my own. I was seventeen.

The free man never thinks of escape.

But if you move fast, you can have your freedom.

Whenever we submit our will to someone else’s opinion, a part of us dies

The first slave to read and write was the first to run away.

A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.