If I were mayor, I'd invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I'd let the elderly in residential homes wander free.
Jane Birkin
Related I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free ma... RUSSELL MEANS You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it ... DICK GREGORY I'd like to see a world free of strife, stress, pain, hunger, war - a cool place where everyone ... DIONNE WARWICK Sometimes, I wish we were all amateurs again. I'd play for nothing. Ab-so-lute-ly free. But that... DAN MARINO I've always thought I'd been pretty good with people, and I basically have spent a conflict-... O. J. SIMPSON I'm strictly a sugar-free Red Bull guy. I'd rather enjoy my sugar intake elsewhere. SETH MEYERS I'd like to open an animal orphanage in Kenya. I do a lot of work for Born Free. RACHEL HUNTER The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I... ANGELINA JOLIE I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give th... TAKESHI KITANO What I'm thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and J... ESTHER DYSON There's an ease that I have living in Australia. The best things about Sydney are free: the suns... RUSSELL CROWE I thought I was special until I realised the offer of free rides were not exclusive to one ABDESSLEM KHALIL Many people confuse “chronic fatigue” (which is a symptom of many chronic conditions, including ... VALERIE FREE In Washington, if you're a congressman or a senator or the President, you make much more money t... BEAU WILLIMON Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone ... CANDACE BUSHNELL I'm free. I'm free to say what I feel. CHRISTINE GREGOIRE I'd love to have a proper sailing boat and go around the world. JONATHAN POWELL I really wanted to find a piano for the farm house. There were so many free pianos on Craigslist, I ... NEKO CASE College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I&... ROBERT B. PARKER I used to always sing my way into the movies and the basketball games or whatever. I'd sing for ... AARON NEVILLE The first time I ever saw people of any color was when D-Day left from my hometown in England, to go... RICHARD DAWSON At Marshall Field in Chicago, I had them take a big bed into the menswear department, one with black... WAVY GRAVY I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to Go... RABIH ALAMEDDINE I usually go make-up free when I'm not working. Because I work so much, during the free days tha... BAR REFAELI I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and infor... SAMUEL DASH You know I used to sit there and I'd go outside and play ball and everything, but now in my free... SCOTTY MCCREERY Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON I'm a human, and I'm multidimensional. If I was the perfect form of anything, I'd be bor... HALSEY If I'd known how much packing I'd have to do, I'd have run again. HARRY S TRUMAN So I figured in keeping with the record, I'd do something off the wall which is show up for free... PAUL WESTERBERG I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an... SAM WYLY In 2005, I got an email from Belarus Free Theatre. They were emailing playwrights in America and Eng... TOM STOPPARD I'd say my best memory was climbing Mt. Fuji, and the worst memory was... trying to fit my feet ... BRUCE FEILER Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free... CHIEF JOSEPH In London I feel free; nobody bothers anyone and everyone is free to express themselves. MANOLO BLAHNIK So, I'm lying on the couch and Laura walks in and I say, 'Free at last,' and she says ... GEORGE W. BUSH I am the Trolley of Love. Free rides before noon and after 11:58 am!
DARK JAR TIN ZOO I believe in the free enterprise system. RALPH NORMAN I believe in America. I believe in free enterprise. MITT ROMNEY I will continue to speak out against the views of both Limbaugh and Hannity when I feel it's war... ALAN COLMES I saw a '60 Minutes' piece on Google as a place to work. It was such a foreign concept from ... VINCE VAUGHN People in France have a phrase: "Spirit of the Stairway." In French: esprit d'Escalier. It means tha... CHUCK PALAHNIUK If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere. MARILYN MONROE I am gluten free, dairy free and sugar free, although I do slip up on the sugar sometimes because I ... TABATHA COFFEY It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON I'd like to think, if I was ever in a fight, I'd win, although I'd probably run in the o... RACHEL NICHOLS If I were president of the United States, I'd build a great wall along the Mexican border and no... DAVE MUSTAINE I remember when we were shooting 'Boogie Nights,' all of my stand-ins were wiping out all th... HEATHER GRAHAM Every New Year's Eve, I have a pact to do something I never thought I'd do. So I created thi... CARL LEWIS I peaked early. I was told I'd missed my boat. MOON UNIT ZAPPA People would ask me to autograph their bodies and then the next time I'd see them on tour they... CHUCK PALAHNIUK It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th... QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr... QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g... QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as... QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters... QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Pretty much everyone on my iPod, I'd like to be friends with. But I'd say that the main two ... FINN JONES After the cancer-free diagnosis, I thought I'd go off and do the things I never did in my teens ... JAMEELA JAMIL I left 'Saturday Night Live' without a film to go to, and I'd filmed 'Old School'... WILL FERRELL I'd wake up in the morning and I would think, 'Where am I?' I'd have to gather mysel... PAT SUMMITT I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the... CHARLES LINDBERGH No free rides for us. JEFF WEISS If I'd been in a school play, I'd probably have sneezed and messed everything up. MILLIE BOBBY BROWN With any free time I have, I'd take a high energy work out class at Soul Cycle, grab an outdoor ... TIA MOWRY If I'm free, it's because I'm always running. JIMI HENDRIX I'd always vaguely expected to outgrow my limitations. One day, I'd stop twisting my hair, a... GRETCHEN RUBIN If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free. RUSSELL MEANS It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON What I'd love to do would be to bring a person from the past to me. In that case I'd pick Ja... JO BEVERLEY If a studio is going to offer me the opportunity to invite my mother and grandmother and all my frie... LEONARDO DICAPRIO My dad was a really good surfer, and by the time I was 10, he was dragging me out on some good days ... XAVIER RUDD
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JANE AUSTEN There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison JANE AUSTEN I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine. JANE AUSTEN To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect JANE AUSTEN There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My cour... JANE AUSTEN I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. N... JANE AUSTEN Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection. JANE AUSTEN I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is to... JANE AUSTEN There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, whic... JANE AUSTEN Somewhere a bird sang, its chant hanging plaintive and melancholy in the still air...I think it's a ... JANE JOHNSON We are all fools in love JANE AUSTEN ....how good Mrs. West could have written such books and collected so many hard works, with all her ... JANE AUSTEN What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited sketches, full of variety and glow? How could I p... JANE AUSTEN Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals cor... JANE AUSTEN Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has f... JANE AUSTEN I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit. JANE AUSTEN If I am a wild Beast I cannot help it. It is not my own fault. JANE AUSTEN I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive. JANE AUSTEN I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my lif... 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One cannot love a reserved person. JANE AUSTEN I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. JANE AUSTEN Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerab... JANE AUSTEN Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itsel... JANE ADDAMS One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. JANE AUSTEN It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good co... JANE AUSTEN It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, s... JANE AUSTEN I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than o... JANE AUSTEN The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain - until it is secured for all of us and... JANE ADDAMS One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. JANE AUSTEN One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, noth... JANE AUSTEN Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied. JANE AUSTEN Those who do not complain are never pitied. JANE AUSTEN Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. JANE AUSTEN In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. JANE AUSTEN I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. JANE AUSTEN Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor o... JANE AUSTEN What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. JANE AUSTEN With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works. 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