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Every invalid is a prisoner.

Marguerite Yourcenar

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Nobody wants a political prisoner, but a political emigrant is no problem.

Alexei Navalny

Tags: Political Problem Nobody

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

Nelson Mandela

Tags: Men Only Cannot

You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.

Edie Brickell

Tags: You Like Up

In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

Eldridge Cleaver

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The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

Mick Jagger

Tags: Great Want Place

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.

Henri Matisse

Tags: Never Should Must

I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.

Martha Washington

Tags: Like Think More

I would only read the novels that people classify as 'beach books' if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative was the 'Book of Mormon.'

Tom Robbins

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Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards; paedophiles free to leer at children in the very parks where they have committed horrific crimes.

Trevor Phillips

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A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation, and the greater his wealth the greater his danger.

John Foxe

Tags: Only His Little

Terrorism is not a matter that can be left to law enforcement, with its deliberative process, built-in delays, and safeguards that may let the prisoner go free on procedural grounds.

George P. Shultz

Tags: Go May Matter

And now, dear sister, I must leave this house or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it by filling up the road I am directed to take.

Dolley Madison

Tags: Me Up Will

One of my biggest fears is not being able to break out of a rut; of becoming a prisoner to my ways, unable to change course. But in my mid-thirties, I learned you can change your thinking.

Matt Dillon

Tags: Change You Out

I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.

Talib Kweli

Tags: People Me Make

The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.

Gary Zukav

Tags: Power You Very

That means presenting the issues in certain ways that will appeal to those people and then becoming a prisoner of your own language and thought process. That has always happened - it's just been intensified.

Robert Scheer

Tags: People Just Always

As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.

Jackson Browne

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We get caught up in all the stress - 'Got to do this, is this the right thing for me to do?' - but what about the thing you want to do? That's what'll keep you young. It's empowering, not becoming a prisoner of some other person's idea of what you should be.

Matt Dillon

Tags: You Me About

Half of the days in 2014, I had to confine my daughter to my home like a prisoner because the air quality in Beijing was so poor. One morning, I saw my daughter banging on the window... The day will come when she asks me, 'Why do you keep me here? What is going to hurt me when I go outside?'

Chai Jing

Tags: Home Morning You

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