Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alice Rivlin

What he's likely to do is to continue writing and speaking, as he has done to some extent at the Fed, and pursuing his interests in economics, which are very intense, ... He loves working with data and thinking of new ideas about the economy. I suspect we will get some of that, and in some ways, he'll be a little bit freer to speak.

Daisy Donovan

Women should be freer to say, 'I have a friend with the most amazing life, so interesting, and she says in a sad, little voice, 'Everyone's getting married.''

Jessica Hecht

I was pregnant with my first child during 'Stop/Kiss,' and for whatever reason, the fact that I was so physically uncomfortable allowed me to be freer in the role.

Charlton Heston

I think we make a difference together. We are a freer people than if we hadn't fought this good fight,

Sam Brownback

should remain top and pressing issues if we hope to achieve a freer and more prosperous Middle East.

Common

Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist.

Dev Hynes

I know a lot of people feel like they get eaten alive by New York, but I feel it more as a father figure or something - this huge presence watching over me. I definitely feel better and work freer here.

Bonnie Raitt

I tend to be freer on the piano. I never took guitar lessons, so my reach exceeds my grasp - what I hear in my head I don't always know how to play. But I love to play over something else. I'm not a self-starter. I get kind of bored with the same three folk chords that I know.

Terry Teachout

Even the Impressionists, the most innovative artists of their time, sought to paint realistically. They believed that their freer way of portraying the visible world was truer to life than the literal realism of the 'salon painters' who dominated French art throughout the 19th century.

Mike McCready

At this point, because we have stayed the same course for so many years, I feel like we are freer to make choices that are motivated by what feels right creatively at a given point in time.

Disengagement will not solve the massive economic problems the Palestinians are facing, ... Gaza should have much freer access to the outside world.

The trend follows the banks - the freer the bank is with money, the more people borrow. That can get people in trouble real fast. I think we're going to find out here soon if that's going to happen where we live.

They allow for freer access while increasing security.

Preston Manning

For many years I have advocated 'redesigning Parliament' in a variety of ways - elect the Senate, do away with the 'confidence convention,' permit freer voting, strengthen the role of back benchers and committees, do away with ineffectual 'take note' debates, restructure question period, and so on.

Robert Parry

It would seem to me he would be more comfortable with a freer exchange of ideas, not coming in 100 percent convinced of what should be done.

Condoleezza Rice

was characterized by freer debate, increased transparency and improved access to the media, in contrast with previous polls.

Pascal Lamy

Both need to make efforts, and that is the issue that will allay concerns of many developing countries who want freer trade -- and things will be a lot better.

While a Koizumi win was priced in, such a decisive victory ... is more than most were expecting. Koizumi will now be able to push his reform agenda with a much freer hand.

Lou Piniella

You always have regrets, but I needed to get close to home. My dad passed away this spring; I spent some valuable time with him. I had a couple of other things that were pressing ... Now, I'm a little freer again.

Herta Muller

The more words we are allowed to take, the freer we become. If our mouth is banned, then we attempt to assert ourselves through gestures, even objects. They are more difficult to interpret, and take time before they arouse suspicion.

Donald Rumsfeld

While there is no one model that is perfect for every nation at every time in its development, a look across the globe suggests that societies that tend to encourage more open markets and freer systems are societies where the people are enjoying the greatest opportunities,

Mel Martinez

Forty-two years ago, I came to America from communist Cuba so I might have a better way of life, a freer way of life - a more democratic way of life. I wanted to live the American Dream where if you worked hard and put your mind to the task, anything was possible.

He believed that Muslim countries had been thwarted over the years while others, like Israel and India, were allowed freer rein. From a Western perspective, he cheated in stealing designs, but from his point of view, he did what was necessary to achieve his goal for the country.

Tom Vilsack

As we move into a freer marketplace, it's incumbent upon us to show how crops can be used in a wider way,

Alex Turner

I think New York is a good place to write in general because it's a grid. It's organized. You know where you are on the map. That centers you, and your imagination is perhaps freer to roam.

It's hard for anything that will come out of Capitol Hill to make speech any freer in China.

Meryl Streep

I like who I am now. Other people may not. I'm comfortable. I feel freer now. I don't want growing older to matter to me.

Walter Williams

Creating false distinctions between human rights and property rights plays into the hands of Democrat and Republican Party socialists who seek to control our lives. If we buy into the notion that somehow property rights are less important, or are in conflict with, human or civil rights, we give the socialists a freer hand to attack our property.

Greg Biffle

If I was a little freer I might have got him.

Theodor Herzl

In Paris, as I have said, I achieved a freer attitude toward anti-Semitism, which I now began to understand historically and to pardon.

Martin Jacques

The election of Shinzo Abe as the leader of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic party and now prime minister will have profound repercussions for Japan and East Asia. Most western commentary during the premiership of Junichiro Koizumi has been concerned with the extent to which Japan has allowed a freer rein to market forces.