637 quotes found
“I reject most conventional wisdom.”
“Marketers use big data profiling to predict who is about to get pregnant, who is likely to buy a new car, and who is about to change sexual orientations. That's how they know what ads to send to wh...”
“Liberals want the government to get bigger, and they want you to drive smaller cars, and they want to dictate the way you live.”
“Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance open-mindedness is the sibling of peace. ”
“Whenever I look at a baby or children in general, I smile and just want to play with them.”
“Young people have this almost romantic attachment to civil rights, liberties, emancipating people from oppression, etc. The idea that such oppression exists in this country offends me, but it's abl...”
“A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.”
“I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive, possessive - and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger...”
“I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.”
“A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.”
“When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.”
“When you talk about change, you know what makes it really tough for people is on the one hand you've got tradition, and on the other hand you've got change; in many people's mind, change equals mod...”
“Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.”
“Freedom without virtue isn't freedom - it will eventually destroy a society.”
“I think the only way to behave is as if nothing is private. And then fight to make what you care about legal and acceptable.”
“Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so.”
“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.”
“The Founding Fathers are not just some people that happened to get mad a long time ago and want their freedom. They were special people in addition to what their natural yearnings were.”
“The battle for freedom and liberty really never is over, and there are really low points in it, but I'm not giving up, and I'm not gonna engage in phony pep talks, either.”
“It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.”
