#turn

Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#because #beings #come #doing #face

So when I was 13, I basically left home and never returned and lived at home again. I would come home for a week at Christmas and two weeks in the summer only. ↗

— Peter Jurasik

#basically #christmas #come #home #i

You know sometimes you're in a position of risk and you feel that you can turn good or bad. ↗

— Luc Besson

#feel #good #know #position #risk

It turned out that the country was helpless in the face of a new reality. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#face #helpless #new #out #reality

I made a conscious decision not to tell anyone in my life. Now I tell people - don't tell anyone your idea until you have invested enough of yourself in it that you are not going to turn back. When a person has an idea at that conception moment it is the most vulnerable - one negative comment could knock you off course. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#back #comment #conception #conscious #conscious decision

We need someone to turn things around in America. ↗

— Scott Walker

#around #need #someone #things #turn

I read the script for Wonder Boys, and I said that was almost perfect, it was so classy, cool and funny. It's a really specific thing. We stuck to it, it turned out good and a lot of people liked it. ↗

— Robert Downey, Jr.

#classy #cool #funny #good #i

Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#blind #blind eye #condemned #eye #occur

Bantam Press. And they commissioned me to write it. And when that was completed, they sold it to Harper and Row. And then I put it out to every movie studio in town. And they all turned it down. ↗

— William Peter Blatty

#completed #down #every #harper #i

The game against the Vikings back in my second year stands out. It was kind of a turnaround for us. It allowed us to make a run at the playoffs for the first time in quite a while. The memories are so many it's hard to pin one down. ↗

— Drew Bledsoe

#allowed #back #down #first #first time