Warren Miller
Filmmaker, Writer
"Free spirited free riders they're on their way but don't know where they're going."
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Free Spirit
61 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Princess Diana
Philanthropist, Humanitarian
"I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am."
Audrey Hepburn
Actress, Humanitarian
"No matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself"
Alice Walker
Novelist, Poet
"I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything."
Abraham Lincoln
Political Leader
"In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth."
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"It takes discipline to be a free spirit."
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"I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot."
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"But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs - is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non-adorer, the dweller in the woods."
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"all government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses."
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"And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame."
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"I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion."
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"I had always been a free spirit, and always gotten what I wanted."
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"One radical free spirit nonconformist is pretty much like another."
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"Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free."
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"It's simply a very romantic place. Just one look at any of those streets, and you couldn't be anywhere else - it's so beautiful, and there's that location, and the sense of the free spirit. Who couldn't become ravenous in such a place?"
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"I'm a free spirit - unfortunately for some."
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"A ship in dock, surrounded by quays and the walls of warehouses, has the appearance of a prisoner meditating upon freedom in the sadness of a free spirit put under restraint."
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"Love God, and do as you like, say the Free Spirits. Yes; but as long as you like anything contrary to God's will, you do not love Him."
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"I’m a free spirit who never had the balls to be free."
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"I like that free spirit where you can laugh together and argue. I love a writer's room."
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"Listen to this, Nimit. Follow Coleman Hawkins' improvised lines very carefully. He is using them to tell us something. Pay very close attention. He is telling us the story of the free spirit that is doing everything it can to escape from within him. That same kind of spirit is inside me, inside you. There-you can hear it, I'm sure: the hot breath, the shivering heart. (Thailand)"
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"I love him who is of a free spirit and a free heart: thus is his head only the bowels of his heart; his heart, however, causeth his down-going."
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