Quote by Amy Tan
I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had fr

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression. – Amy Tan

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Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power. – Amy Tan

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I think Ive always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success. – Amy Tan

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I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic. – Amy Tan

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I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech. – Stockwell Day

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The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women. – Betty Ford

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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom. – Charles Horton Cooley

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Freedom is a muscle… you have to exercise it. – Roy Scheider

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You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. – Aristotle

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When youre 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when youre 21 and youve read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they werent really good. OK, lets be honest. A lot of them were crap. – Patrick Rothfuss

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Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission. – Arnold Bennett

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I dont mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that its not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks to being well-known and respected in ones field. Public perks. Like, I dont know, general friendliness and willingness to please, just to point out two. – Emma Thompson

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