I lived in lower Manhattan at the time. So I just remember walking out of my apartment and seeing it and then going back in and watching CNN 'cause I was so hungry for information, trying to figure out what’s going on.
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Quotes tagged ‘Freedom’
I was on my way back to England, and we were at JFK on the tarmac, and the pilot just suddenly said, 'We can't take off. We're going to have to go back to base.' And out of the window on the right‑hand side of the airplane, you could see the twin towers. You could see one plume of smoke, and then yo…
It took everything that I knew — not just as a journalist — but as a husband, and a father, and citizen to get through that day.
When you leave college, you get to make decisions about your future based on what you want, and you don’t have anyone else’s plans to think about.
You never have to double check before making plans with friends or booking trips or even looking for apartments. Everything becomes about what’s good for you, not what’s good for your relationship.
Stay out late and sleep in as long as you like — who's judging?
You don’t have anyone checking up on you if you’re working late.
You have, right before your eyes, your very own life that you run completely. You have the flexibility to control every aspect of your schedule without having to compromise or work around anyone else! This is freedom! Take it and run with it.
I want to be able to have freedom to explore my sexuality and the world and I am way too young to think about having to give that up for someone who doesn't want to agree with my choices.
All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that's a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly.
We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men and women a…
I’m history! No, I’m mythology! Nah, I don’t care what I am; I’m free hee!
One day you’ll turn forty and you’ll slowly realize you don’t feel the eyes anymore, and the freedom is a relief, but you’ll also sort of miss it, and when a truck driver whistles at you while you’re crossing the road, you’ll think, Really? For me?
Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but sti…
When everybody is equal, we are all more free.
After freedom, what next?
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.