Liberating Quotes

I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up.

I get so happy when I write a joke. It's a very satisfying, liberating feeling.

Plus, doing a zombie movie is quite liberating. It's fun not to take myself seriously all the time.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he was a secular saint, before everyone was reading him.

Once I became a total buffoon, it was so liberating.

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?

In liberating Iraq, we have rid the nation and the rest of the world from the danger of Saddam Hussein.

There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.

I'm not saying that people have to listen to rock music. It's a great, cool thing and it can really be liberating for a lot of people but, hey, so can Charles Dickens so I'm not going to judge.

Liberating Iraq from a legacy of violence and putting it on the path to peace and prosperity will take time.

Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.

The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.

I'm happiest on set because I'm not myself. I'm someone else. The moustache, the dinner jacket. It's not me. You're always this sort of double, and it's liberating. Imagine being stuck with yourself... all those doubts.

Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the "given" material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.

I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves.

People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.

It was a beautiful experience for her, the experience that she had that she confesses. It wasn't dirty and it wasn't horrible and wasn't shattering. It was a wonderful, liberating experience.

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.

I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it.

My deal was that they would use a full-length picture of me in my underwear and a full-length picture of me all done up, and they would write about how long it took and how much it cost, because that was the whole point. It was very liberating.

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.

I noticed every time I spent a lot of time in the bathtub, I would just get fantastic realizations about myself, and they were so valuable and liberating.

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

It's great to go on your own and discover new things just for yourself, to meet new people and all that. If you're all on your own, then there is nobody there to guide you and you have to make all the decisions for yourself. It's quite liberating in a way.

But 'Playboy' was liberating. I was drawn to it and went for it full throttle.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming.