Quotes About Independence

Never take advice, including this.

I would never take a fight with someone to one-up someone else. You know, you do things because you want to do them.

Racism was once just racism, a terrible bigotry that people nevertheless learned to live with, if not as a necessary evil then as an inevitable one. But the civil-rights movement, along with independence movements around the world, changed that.

Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.

I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.

Our parents don't always know what's right. It's a new age.

New Hampshire is different than Massachusetts. We have - well, we're the Live Free or Die state. We are independent.

My view is that we should not be taxing at the Federal level for the things that New Jersey can do for itself.

In New Jersey, you're able to live your life.

I don't believe any artist who says, 'I had to do that because DJs will tell me I can't play that music. I will lose my job.' Well, lose the job and create a new job. If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!

Im quite a family-orientated person, so being over here in a foreign country - by myself - for the first time with a big new job was daunting.

In the 1960s, if you could save $500, you had enough to move to another city and start a new life.

I'm lucky. I've got my own studio. I can make my own music, but not many people can do that. I will always be making new music, because that's what I have to do; that's why I'm here. I will always do that.

So many parents these days are totally cool with their kids living on the couch the whole time. It's like a new thing with families. But you've got to leave the nest and get out there.

The motto is, control our destiny, do new things, where we talk directly with our consumers and aren't dependent on ad revenue.

That's part of growing up. You're away from home and you meet new people and adjust to new things. It's part of life.

It's great to go on your own and discover new things just for yourself, to meet new people and all that. If you're all on your own, then there is nobody there to guide you and you have to make all the decisions for yourself. It's quite liberating in a way.

By the time I was 14, my most burning ambition was to leave my home, leave my neighborhood, leave my city. I kept it a secret wish. It was easier done than said. It wasn't only that I wanted to leave Chicago - I wanted to live in New York City. And I did - for a time.

My mom moved to New York City alone with a kid on each hip to try to live an authentic artistic life.

I moved from Huntsville, Alabama to New York City right out of high school. I was alone, scared, and had very little money.

I think it'd be great if the evening news broadcast, for instance, were unsponsored and unrated.

If a newspaper is to be of real service to the public, it must have a big circulation: first, because its news and its comments must reach the largest possible number of people; second, because circulation means advertising, and advertising means money, and money means independence.

I love nothing more than going to eat by myself with a newspaper.

My parents taught me a great thing when I was a little kid to not read newspapers or follow the media.