Quotes About Independence

There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler.

There are many people I admire and seek advice from, but for the most part, I just follow my gut instead of trying to mimic someone else's leadership style.

A mind cannot be independent of culture.

It's always a good idea to let the audience make up their own minds.

The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.

People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.

I don't take a backseat to nobody. That's just my mindset.

Mine is not an autonomous imagination.

Your government is no longer mine.

Honestly, I never felt like I wasn't an artist on my own. I always felt like the music I made was mine, whether it was part of a collaboration with people.

I love my parents. But they have their life, and I have mine.

My goal was never to win awards. Mine was let me get to a place where I don't have to work. I don't have to do anything I don't want to.

The film industry does not interest me greatly. The people, I don't mingle with them much. I meet them when I have to.

When we were 17, I got my first car, a Mini Metro.

It is essential that the young people of this country learn to respect the right of every man and woman to seek his or her happiness with minimal interference from the government.

Would I love to think that one day I would be First Minister of an independent Scotland? Of course.

I wasn't a party apparatchik. I think too many of today's people in both parties come forward, university, 'What party will I join? Oh, yes, I know somebody here. I might get a job working for this member or for that shadow minister or minister.'

Let the French ministers take care of France; we will take care of Italy!

Let's get with it, guys: You don't need to hear a Ministry song to get political. You should be political on your own. We're just a side project to society. So do I care what people think about me personally? No. I just do what I do.

I hadn't gone to high school. I left Minnesota, I left home, I was on my own. I was seventeen.

We knew people in Cleveland who had been making movies for 20 years that nobody sees. Every couple of years, they make a little small movie on their own, and it goes to some minor festivals, and that's it. Four years later, they do it again. That's a fulfilling life for some filmmakers, and they're happy to work that way.

It's not me to toot my horn. The minute you toot your horn, it seems like society will try and disconnect your battery. And if you do not toot your horn, they'll try their darnedest to give you a horn to toot, or say that you should have a horn.

I wanted to be grown up the minute I could.

among men and not among angels; among men as intelligent, as determined and as independent as myself, who, not agreeing with me, do not choose to yield up their opinions to mine. Mutual concessions is our only resort, or mutual hostilities."*