Glenn Greenwald Quotes

A philosophy of freedom must set out from the experience of thinking, for it is through this experience of thinking that a human being discovers his own self, finds his bearings as an independent personality.

What I am trying to do is create a space for people to explore what they want to be, as opposed to fit into a label that they have been given.

I did my solo thing for a while and got that out of my system.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

Those who fear that we are losing our individualism couldn't be more wrong: Americans have never been more free to create and recreate themselves.

I'm just trying to do things that are interesting for me.

I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.

Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.

I pay for what I call eccentricity and my will to evolve.

I want to feel like I'm doing something creative and trying different things, putting different hats on and playing. I don't know what's the point otherwise; otherwise, it's just a job. You punch a time clock.

I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.

A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you. And then that's what you have to be. But what I'm looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

Sometimes you want to make your own experiences.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

I'm not out trying to prove anything. I'm sort of finished with that, so I get to play in other sandboxes and try and figure out what I like and I'm interested in.

I was allowed to wander where I could. Here is a case in which you search for your independence and allow something creative to come out of that.

People speculate or think what they want to think, but it's been really fun for me to kind of explore what I want to explore.

Training readers to expect a voice or subject matter from me would interfere with the reinvention I crave. At the same time, I feel almost too able to disappear at times.

Every man must have freedom, must have the scope to form, test, and act upon his own choices, for any sort of development of his own personality to take place. He must, in short, be free in order that he may be fully human.

You just get out there and be what you want to be. That's part of evolving and part of staying true to yourself - part of remaining alive in a real authentic, long-term sense creatively: not listening to what other people tell you to be.

In life, you should be allowed to express yourself. People are happier like this.

If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.

I think it's best for me to kind of just plough on doing whatever interests me, just following my own whims, because otherwise, I would think, 'Oh well, I have to write something now that really represents my generation or that really represents young Irish people.'

My parents are both very stylish, so they always encouraged me to explore when it came to personal style. I went through a lot of crazy phases, and I'm still finding myself.