Top 100 For Free Quotes
#1. With some people, that love of music is just buried in them. It's so deep in them that they would play for free because they have to.
Kim Basinger
#2. I sing the 'Star Spangled Banner,' so I can get into football, basketball and baseball games for free.
John Cullum
#3. We're not going to break anything. Don't think of it as breaking in to SeaWorld. Think of it as visiting SeaWorld in the middle of the night for free.
John Green
#4. A few years ago, for my birthday, Sean Price Williams said, "I'll give you one free day of shooting." He shot Kati with an I and co-shot Fake It So Real. While we've always worked together, I didn't want him to do it for free, so he cashed in his birthday chip and came for this one day.
Robert Greene
#5. The captain shook her head - not in disagreement, but wonder. She glanced at Ariq. We'll do this all for free if you let us see inside that thing.
Meljean Brook
#6. Nothing is for free, even in heaven.
Toba Beta
#7. We will continue to go out onto the streets and to protest, and actively encourage the public to support us in our campaign for free education,
Joe Hockey
#8. The farms you live in will be yours for free. When mineworkers strike, it will be to complain that we are giving them too much money.
Julius Malema
#9. Fighting for free enterprise means standing up for free markets. The freedom to succeed includes the freedom to fail. We must defend entrepreneurial capitalism against the onslaught of the American Left.
Mike Pence
#10. The main thing to tell a person when you explain how to become righteous is to announce to him for free grace of God, concealing nothing, saying none other than what God says in the Gospel. Build a fence around Mount Sinai, but not around Golgotha ,because at Golgotha all God's wrath was appeased.
C.F.W. Walther
#11. I don't like it when people ask actors to work for free - on the fringe - as if it's some kind of virtue. That annoys me - actors should be paid well.
Andrew Scott
#12. I owe you a small thanks, for you have made me far more sure of my own position by letting me see the case for free choice put forward with all the energy of so distinguished and powerful a mind, but with no other effect than to make things worse than before.
Martin Luther
#13. When a consumer derives value - especially from something that was given to him for free - he becomes the best kind of evangelist.
Mitch Joel
#14. Everything has gotten less expensive. Digitization has made content, whether it's print or music, less costly. Today, anyone can read the news for free online.
Hubert Burda
#15. I wanted to give 'Droptops' away for free because it doesn't sound like my album. It's way more like a nostalgic Cool Kids sound, but that's me too.
Chuck Inglish
#16. When I give away a book for free, it gets my name out there. That has lifelong value for me that goes way beyond the few dollars I could maybe charge.
James Altucher
#17. It's hard to sell records when you can get it for free everywhere.
Jason Wade
#18. Never give anything away for free - but sometimes it pays to oil the wheels a bit.
Diana Gabaldon
#19. It's when you start doing things for free, that you start to grow wings.
Gus Van Sant
#20. You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'?
Dick Gregory
#21. Immigrants used to come to America seeking freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom from government. Now they come looking for free health care, free education, and a free lunch.
Harry Browne
#22. People pay money to go in there and that row thrown at them? Could stick your head in a bucket and whack it with a stick for free ...
Charlie Fletcher
#23. OMG! Look at that! They're ALL wearing the same butt-ugly ensemble! Wait, don't tell me. They were giving them away for free with a purchase of a McDonald's Happy Meal!
Rachel Renee Russell
#24. [Conservatives] go to church, they do lots of things for free for each other. They hold potluck dinners ... They serve food to poor people. They share, they give, they give away for free. It's the very same people leading Wall Street firms who, on Sundays, show up and share.
Lawrence Lessig
#25. So I figured in keeping with the record, I'd do something off the wall which is show up for free and wing it ... I don't know, I'm just going to play some songs. I think it'll be fun.
Paul Westerberg
#26. In June 1991 he took the drastic step of asking a friend to post PGP on a Usenet bulletin board. PGP is just a piece of software, and so from the bulletin board it could be downloaded by anyone for free. PGP was now loose on the Internet.
Simon Singh
#27. I get stuff for free and I sell it for as much as I can get.
Matthew Lesko
#29. Why is it immoral to be paid for an act that is perfectly legal if done for free?
Gloria Allred
#30. Unless it's out of the goodness of someone's heart, I don't like having things given to me for free. I like working hard for what I earn. It gives me a sense of gratitude, and that's the only way I can truly appreciate it.
Sasha Azevedo
#31. You download it for free, we get charged back for it.
I know you're saying, "They won't know, they won't miss it,
Besides, I ain't a thief, they won't pay me a visit."
So, if I come to your job, take your corn on the cob,
And take a couple kernels off it, that would be alright with you?
Andre Benjamin
#32. The question I ask myself is what would have happened if newspapers hadn't initially given their content away for free on the Internet. It's so hard to get people to pay once they are accustomed to having something for free.
Tom Rachman
#33. I am for free commerce with all nations; political connection with none; and little or no diplomatic establishment
George Washington
#34. It's easy to get lost in the shuffle, and just enticing people to hear the music for free doesn't mean that much when everyone else is essentially doing the same thing on MySpace, or wherever.
Trent Reznor
#35. Right now it might seem draconian to charge for access to information we have come to expect for free, but it would feel very different if you knew what other people were also paying you at the same time for information service you have fractionally contributed to in the course of your life.
Jaron Lanier
#36. After you cross a hurdle, it looks so easy. Sometimes, it may feel that it was always possible. However, for that feeling of euphoria, you have to slog. After all, nothing comes for free!
Neelam Saxena Chandra
#37. I like clothes that are simple and preferably cheap unless I'm being given it for free.
Ben Chaplin
#38. It's always easy to get people to condemn threats to free speech when the speech being threatened is speech that they like. It's much more difficult to induce support for free speech rights when the speech being punished is speech they find repellent.
Glenn Greenwald
#39. Most people whom you may view as wine experts are usually just good at one thing: winemakers are good at making wine, sommeliers at talking about it, and wine journalists at drinking it for free.
Olivier Magny
#40. I'm paid to make an idiot out of myself. Why do you do it for free?
Henny Youngman
#41. Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free
Bill McKibben
#42. Happy Endings are profitable. People can get misery for free.
Xavier Neal
#43. Don't believe bands who say it's all about the fans and they want to give their music away for free. The result is they will continue to live in their mother's basement.
Gene Simmons
#44. Mix-tapes are something that have been going on for a while. They've been pretty important to hip-hop for the past 10 years. It's the way we advertise our music to the public for free.
Wale
#45. Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown men who will be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow ...
Ludwig Von Mises
#46. My brother is a doctor and he will take care of post-traumatic stress. I think he'll do it for free.
Wladimir Klitschko
#47. I believe there should be breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack, all for free and for every child that goes to school. And all food that is good, clean and fair.
Alice Waters
#48. I couldn't recommend more that people put themselves in a situation where they can see a lot of work that they admire, and for free.
Mike Birbiglia
#49. If what you are getting online is for free, you are not the customer, you are the product.
Jonathan Zittrain
#50. We get these lives for free. I didn't do anything to get this life, and no matter what the hardships are, it is free and, in a way, it's an extraordinary bargain.
Junot Diaz
#51. The American feels too rich in his opportunities for free expression that he often no longer knows what he is free from. Neither does he know where he is not free; he does not recognize his native autocrats when he sees them.
Erik Erikson
#52. At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day.
Jhonen Vasquez
#54. I give away thousands of paintings for free.
Banksy
#55. In an economy where more and more value is in information - is in the bits, not the atoms, where bits can be copied essentially for free - any time you have that situation, economic schemes that rely on existing models of intellectual property laws for protection are going to do less and less well.
Mitch Kapor
#56. There's something odd about telling people, artists, that they need to work for free to be pure while you're sitting there getting a salary that ultimately is paid by a generation of young people going deeply into debt for their education.
Astra Taylor
#57. In Italy it's full-on stardom when you're a cyclist - eating in restaurants for free, it's great.
David Millar
#58. Grace had called Ellen a dry little prune who'd be lucky to give it away for free disguised as a hat, let alone sell it or marry it off.
Lyndsay Faye
#59. Love is for free, just expensive to shop.
Rick Ross
#61. [T]he public library is where those without money, power, access, university affiliation, or advanced degrees can get information for free..
Siva Vaidhyanathan
#62. I get letters from young people telling me that they're broke and download my albums for free. They ask me what I think about that. I now have a standard line. I tell them, 'I would rather be heard than paid.'
Henry Rollins
#63. People are reading news for free on the web, that's got to change.
Rupert Murdoch
#64. I learned the hard way that taking shortcuts and living for free is not really living free.
Sophia Amoruso
#65. What you want to do as a living and get paid for, others want to do as a hobby and for free.
Robert W. Bly
#66. A wise old owl once told me,
One time when he was out of his tree,
That nothing in this world is for free.
I agree!
P.D. Cain
#67. I love shark week, all kids swim for free
Josh Stern
#68. Well, one thing for sure, I won't be remembered for 'Free Willy.' Or maybe I will.
Michael Madsen
#69. a couple years prior we were hitchhiking to a gig with no gear. Now we were on a fucking tour bus. We could eat for free at a catered backstage buffet. Life was good.
Duff McKagan
#70. That's the way to get the chicks for free. And getting the chicks for free is the only true pursuit for a grown-up male. Before puberty, of course, it's avoiding them like the plague.
John Ringo
#71. dollars." "Millions? I can see your stunts for free on YouTube." Alma shook
Angela Cervantes
#72. If I never got to make a living doing what I loved, I'd still do it
for fun and for free.
Susan E. Isaacs
#73. Dear Alec and Magnus, How are you? Everything's just fine here. Thanks for you postcard with the picture of the Taj Mahal. It looks nice. Disregard my last few postcards. I see I overdid it. To make it up to you, I'm going to redecorate Magnus's loft for free. -Izzy
Cassandra Clare
#74. I helped found Artists for New South Africa, but it used to be called Artists for Free South Africa. Alfre Woodard and a bunch of us started this.
Mary Steenburgen
#75. My first Kickstarter project created a book called 'Clear and Present Thinking', a college-level textbook on logic and critical reasoning, which was made available to the world for free. As a professor myself, I observed that the price of textbooks was too high for some of my students.
Brendan Myers
#76. I remember the first time I received a cassette tape of a band called The Clash. I became an instant fan of the Clash and then bought their albums after that and went to their concerts and gave them my money ... but I first got it for free.
Michael Moore
#77. We'd been noticing how much more important the internet had become - once information is out there in the world now, anyone can get it. Since that was beginning to happen with the record anyway, we figured, OK, let's just stream it for free ourselves.
Jeff Tweedy
#78. Self expression is the new entertainment, We never used to question why people sit on the couch for seven hours a day watching bad TV. Nobody ever asked, Why are they doing that for free? We need to celebrate [this desire to contribute for free] rather than question it.
Arianna Huffington
#79. They say that if you're good at something, never do it for free. But who would pay me to make bad jokes?
Caleb Eversole
#80. People gave us everything for free. We were allowed only so much film per picture, but there was no limit to the creativity. I like to say that they let us loose like wild dogs in the streets of Paris.
Helmut Newton
#81. I've got a guy in my office that works 24/7 to shut down websites that are putting 'Dead Air' on the net for free - ripping us off. The problem is many people are of the mindset that says, 'If I can watch it for free, I'll watch it.'
Corbin Bernsen
#82. I am very grateful to make my living doing what I would do for free.
Judd Nelson
#83. A fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for creative inquiry, for free creation without the arbitrary limiting effects of coercive institutions. A decent society should maximize the possibilities for this fundamental human characteristic to be realized.
Noam Chomsky
#84. But lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free thinking. Ideas drift like clouds in an undecided breeze, taking first this direction and then that.
E.L. Konigsburg
#85. I wonder if the priest knows that while he's up here charging for forgiveness, Mary's back there handing it out for free.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#86. In a society ...
so madly in love with oxymoron's ...
ask yourself this ...
... when was the last time you ever bought anything for free?
Non Nomen
#87. Sometimes, a momentary truce in girlhood is much more precious than a guy you really like asking you out, sticking around even after getting the milk for free.
Jessica Knoll
#89. It's one thing to stand in line for free bread or to ask for help paying the rent," she explained. "But there is nothing worse than the shame of being unloved.
Julie Cantrell
#90. (Nothing, the General muttered, is ever so expensive as what is offered for free.) At
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#91. There's no such thing as a tax on happiness," Helen said, rubbing her forehead.
The countess regarded her with rueful sympathy. "My poor girl... it certainly can't be had for free.
Lisa Kleypas
#92. The rationale that etiquette should be eschewed because it fosters inequality does not ring true in a society that openly admits to a feverish interest in the comparative status-conveying qualities of sneakers. Manners are available to all, for free.
Judith Martin
#94. Perhaps I should be flattered that somebody imagines the name is worth so much, especially since my parents gave me the same name 42 years ago for free.
Bill Gates
#95. Friendship isn't something we passively receive. Friendship is something we actively do. It's a gift we offer for free, not a demand we make with a stamping foot.
Lisa-Jo Baker
#96. In Canada, we're happy to provide a safe haven for next-door neighbors in the middle of a marital dispute. And if anyone trips while crossing the border, we're happy to set their broken bones for free.
Douglas Coupland
#97. Another differentiator is that Skype is free and simple to set up, and it costs us virtually nothing for a new user to join the Skype network, which is why we can offer the service for free.
Niklas Zennstrom
#98. Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.
Brian Herbert
#99. The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in that space. Otherwise the individual imagination will be bulldozed over for the chain-store outlets of consumer appetite, true-crime titillations, and celebrity crises.
Rebecca Solnit
#100. And I will wait for Jarod to work for me. For free, cause if it's paid, it's work and not love, unless, of course he loves to work, in which case he'll surely love working for me, because I love people who love to do that to love to do that.
Will Advise
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