Freedom of speech is, to all Americans, as oxygen is to the human condition. It is a right that has been irreversibly programmed into our hard drive. We are free to speak our minds. An artist's right to express him or herself as best suits their art, is the artist's prerogative and it is guaranteed.
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Related Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. JEFFREY FRY To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i... STEVEN STRAIT I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will... NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar... GARY F EVANS... To err is human, but it feels divine. MAE WEST Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO To love is to act. VICTOR HUGO War is no solution to peace. BEN OAK I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n... AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS When our lips parted, he sighed. “I love those eyes, angel. When they look at me, I feel like anyt... BIJOU HUNTER It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via spee... BEBE NEUWIRTH I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of li... MARC CHAGALL Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... CRAIG GROESCHEL It's a big responsibility to help someone express themselves as an artist. CHRISTINA AGUILERA My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. ... JOHN LENNON Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi... DEYTH BANGER No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It'... GARY WRIGHT That I have the right to express myself freely at all times in all circumstances entails the idea th... TOM STOPPARD Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one. NOW IS GOOD PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete... POPE BENEDICT XVI I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, ... FEDERICO FELLINI Freedom of religion is a principle that is central to our Nation's Declaration of Independence. ... RON LEWIS Right now as an artist, what I want to do is be a part of works that are unignorable. I couldn't... BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS More important, it's because God is our only true source of life. CRAIG GROESCHEL You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci... DEYTH BANGER When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec... GEORGE P. ELLIOTT We're in a post-conceptual era where it's really the artist's idea and vision that are p... JEFFREY DEITCH To err is human. To blame someone else is politics. HUBERT H. HUMPHREY The only duty an artist has is in the quality of the art. There is no moral obligation to denounce. ... FERNANDO BOTERO I think the key is basically just your determination. As far an artist is concerned, it's just a... CHRIS BROWN Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist&... ERNEST HEMINGWAY When push comes to shove would people do what they felt was right, to get justice done or would they... GARY F EVANS... Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-cen... ALVEDA KING Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original... BUBBA SPARXXX What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story. DON MIGUEL RUIZ I'm probably the least harsh on myself, and I try not to scrutinize everything about my body. As... KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive... DAN FLAVIN To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness. ZSA ZSA GABOR People like Dick Gregory, Paul Robeson, Harry Belafonte and Nina Simone show me what the definition ... JOHN LEGEND All an artist really wants is to feel something and express it exactly as they felt it. DEDRICK D. L. PITTER It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of ... DANIEL ALARCON An artist who goes around proclaiming that the art he's making is art is probably making a serio... PETER BEARD Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st... NEHA KOTHARI Our nation's blood supply is safer than it's ever been, and it's getting safer as we spe... DAVID SATCHER A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is... JORGE LUIS BORGES The right to free speech is guaranteed by the Constitution. Of course, the state has the right to re... FRANKLIN DRILON If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision... JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision... JOHN F. KENNEDY And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what A... LARRY FLYNT It's only when an artist becomes a master that they are fully able to express themselves. CAROLINA KOSTNER See the world for what it is. BEAUTIFUL! ANTHONY T. HINCKS I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what... HARRY STYLES What's really cool about our family is that we don't hold grudges, and I think that is what&... SELENA I believe that the freedom of speech should be protected, but so should a family's right to priv... DAVE REICHERT The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity,... WILLIAM J. CLINTON The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI All's well that carries on well AMIT ABRAHAM His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. ... ERIK PEVERNAGIE It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic. DEBASISH MRIDHA Let your kids pick their punishments. Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around. It's ... BRUCE FEILER When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press... CHRISTOPHER DODD Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It... ANNE ROIPHE Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Art is the free expression of the artist and they tried to stop us from expressing ourselves, our ar... MARILYN MANSON Let's face it. We live in a command-based system, where we have been programmed since our earliest s... SUZY KASSEM While both these statements refer to eggs, the main difference between these two rather irking state... CHRISTINA ENGELA If I laugh a couple of times a day, I'm doing good. People think it's their God-given right ... JOHN MELLENCAMP The Bible consistently and directly indicates that when we give generously, we're serving, honoring,... CRAIG GROESCHEL To me, freedom of speech and debate are necessary inputs in solving any of our nation's problems... MARVIN AMMORI An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting... DAVID LYNCH Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I&... EDDIE MARSAN We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. S... JACK BOWMAN Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too. ANDY WARHOL I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that... ALBERT ELLIS It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak. NEIL GAIMAN Generally, when a record label suggests album ideas for you, you smile politely, and then proceed to... JOHN SCOFIELD I'm living as an artist, and that's a staggering feeling, it's a total luxury. And becau... CONOR MCPHERSON To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ... GARY F EVANS... I saw that there is no Nature, That Nature doesn’t exist, That there are hills, valleys,... ALBERTO CAEIRO The work of the artist is to express what is repressed or even to speak the unspoken grief of societ... MICHAEL LEUNIG Architects, sculptors painters, we all must return to the crafts! For art is not a 'profession.&... WALTER GROPIUS Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI
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MAXWELL In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct. JOHN C. CALHOUN There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth ... JOHN C. REILLY I was a solid C student because I was doing so many plays. I was a drama nerd, but I was also kind o... JOHN C. REILLY I was a founding member of the 'Dungeons and Dragons' club at my high school. I was in choru... JOHN C. REILLY Talent is a gift, but character is a choice. JOHN C. MAXWELL Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, 'It's a Wonderful Life' tells a bea... JOHN C. MAXWELL I went to an all-boys Catholic school, and not only were we not allowed to wear pajamas, we had to w... JOHN C. REILLY Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If y... JOHN C. MAXWELL There was no measure that required greater caution or more severe scrutiny than one to impose taxes ... JOHN C. CALHOUN The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That'... JOHN C. MAXWELL Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful. JOHN C. MAXWELL The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to fa... JOHN C. MAXWELL I am aware how difficult is the task to preserve free institutions over so wide a space and so immen... JOHN C. CALHOUN The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That&... JOHN C. MAXWELL By nature, every individual has the right to govern himself; and governments, whether founded on maj... JOHN C. CALHOUN We ought not to forget that the government, through all its departments, judicial as well as others,... JOHN C. CALHOUN There is but one nation on the globe from which we have anything serious to apprehend, but that is t... JOHN C. CALHOUN I tried without much success to learn a little of the humanities and the arts, but even passing the ... JOHN C. MATHER The Union next to our liberties the most dear. May we all remember that it can only be preserved by ... JOHN C. CALHOUN Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless o... JOHN C. MAXWELL Beware the wrath of a patient adversary. JOHN C. CALHOUN I'm not a big fan of kids' movies that have this knowing snarkiness to them or this post-mod... JOHN C. REILLY A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough ... JOHN C. MAXWELL England has not wholly escaped the curse which must ever befall a free government which holds extens... JOHN C. CALHOUN To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one anot... JOHN C. MAXWELL Talent grips us. We are overtaken by the beauty of Michelangelo's sculpture, riveted by Mariah C... JOHN C. MAXWELL The day that the balance between the two sections of the country - the slaveholding States and the n... JOHN C. CALHOUN What is it but a cunningly devised scheme to take from one State and to give to another - to repleni... JOHN C. CALHOUN