All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.
Michelangelo Antonioni
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I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY If God give you strength and courage, don't use it to intimidate people or overpower them, rather us... ANTHONY LICCIONE I accept the fact that there is always a way out in every situation we find ourselves but, until we ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW Because Freedom is the most important thing on life, let me Be. 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information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE I can't solve the problems of the world, but being the best person I can be will certainly lessen th... JIM GENOVESE Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice. HENRY LOUIS GATES JR. I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. S.G. TALLENTYRE Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT We're in the middle of this intense competition, and these vendors are looking at all options to dif... CHARLIE BUCHWALTER The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjo... BENJAMIN DISRAELI Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost. THOMAS JEFFERSON There are more references in the Koran than
the Bible to Mary, the mother of Jesus.
-Julia W-. JULIA W Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into your children, that the liberty of the... JUNIUS The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity ... SAMUEL JOHNSON The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty. ADLAI E. STEVENSON To be or not to be that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage chang... LEON C. MEGGINSON To question reason is to trust it. MITCH STOKES Like a deep sad note played beneath the ocean waving through the orb the memories of ... PAWAN MISHRA People's abuse through journalism should not be taken us freedom of press. OSCAR AULIQ-ICE I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... These examples make a mockery of Labour's claims to have given schools the freedom to run themselves... DAVID CAMERON One of the most important things I have found is that no one
school of thought has all of the answer... LEWIS N. ROE When you meet the real problems of life, think of the real lessons of life for the real lessons of l... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH In a day and age where it seems like women want to be with unstable, psychotic, manipulative freaks;... C. JOYBELL C. I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea... RICHARD YATES Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH متهمون نحن بالإرهاب أذا كتبنا عن بقايا وطن ... مخلع... نزار قباني Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ... CHRISTINA ENGELA You can't pick and choose which types of freedom you want to defend. You must defend all of it or be... SCOTT HOWARD PHILLIPS In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursu... CARINE ROITFELD I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I... DR. SEUSS Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The only perspective is to really be there. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out... ANNE FRANK You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. Stubbornness" is knowing exactly what you want courageously living by free will; never to be judged ... MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO
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