Quotes About Independence

I love being the underdog. I'm cool in my dog house.

I've always been the underdog and underdogs don't really care for attention.

They say to never underestimate anyone, but they don't tell you to overestimate people either, so I'm just going to do me.

Don't underestimate the people. Let them decide.

The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.

When people say 'What are underground comics?' I think the best way you can define them is just the absolute freedom involved... we didn't have anyone standing over us.

We were the underground reporters.

I went to underground music studios. In the studios, I learned that you can make a movie without a permit.

It would be awesome to stay popular, but if I was only an underground artist, I would be okay with that.

I don't care about the underground, even if that's where I'm currently residing sonically.

I dominated the underground and then I dominated the overground, and I did that on my own.

When I came up in a band - not just in a band, but a kind of underground DIY community - there was such a clear cut distinction between what pop was and what not pop was in very simplistic terms.

Everything's so commercialised it shuts down the underground.

Tiger parenting is all about raising independent, creative, courageous kids. In America today, there's a dangerous tendency to romanticize creativity in a way that may undermine it.

As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable.

All writers learn this, in time: don't show your work to other people until it's safely finished. Even discussing your unborn book in quite general terms can be such an undermining experience that, afterwards, you give it up and go to live in Guatemala.

In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.

It's really difficult for fanatic churchgoers to understand God can't help me. I'm the only one who can help me.

Just because you're married doesn't mean that you have to spend 24/7 together and can't have separate interests and hobbies. In a healthy relationship, you both understand - and respect - that you need time apart doing what you want to do.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

And I've always said, 'If two people think the same thing about everything, one of them isn't necessary.' We need to be able to understand that if we're going to make real progress.

I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'

When we lost Steve, the grief was understandable, but I wasn't prepared for how scary everything became - that fear factor of 'Now I'm doing this on my own.'

My loyalty was questioned for a long time when I was younger, and that's understandable. I found it very difficult to conform and I wanted to do it all my way.