Quotes About Independence

These women were taking over these former manufacturing warehouses in SoHo and figuring out a way to be fashionable and viable without money. It's hard to imagine a life like that in Manhattan now - there's something romantic about it.

The first thing you need in order to make a business viable is to preserve a cash flow. I made sure I didn't have any financial backing or support.

I believe the absolute majority of Hongkongers have never felt that Hong Kong independence is a viable option.

Why trip off some random person in Idaho that doesn't feel my vibe? Like, no thank you. Stay in your life; I'll stay in mine.

I don't think I could ever have a desk job, so I get to be mobile. I'm on set. I get to walk around kind of doing my own thing, being independent - it's just a really good vibe. Everyone on a film set is very happy, and they all love their jobs, so it's a cool environment to be a part of.

Now when I travel, I'm more adventurous. If I find myself creeping back into that 'not going to leave the hotel' vibe, I take baby steps, like having a nice dinner on my own or getting my nails done.

I just got so fed up with the bad vibes. I didn't care if it was the Beatles; I was getting out.

Caribbean literature only has to be true to itself. It doesn't need colonialism or imperialism. It's always been vibrant.

We've managed to have a long career that is still quite vibrant, yet we've never had to kow-tow to record companies who said we weren't commercial enough.

Moreover, as we live in an era of the ascendancy of democracy and human rights, we must see that Taiwan has been a vibrant democracy with a democratically elected president and legislature.

I think we're returning to more of the original vibration of music and creativity through the removal of this distortion called the music industry. That's where we're heading. And it'll cut out a lot of music if people ever expected to make money.

My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.

I vicariously lived the life of an independent producer from the time I was four years old. And what was always important was writing, writing, writing.

Don't live vicariously through your kids or try to shape them into who you wanted to be, like the popular kid or an athlete. Children should be given the opportunity to be themselves.

I vicariously lived the life of an independent producer from the time I was 4 years old.

I don't use producers, I am the producer. I use an engineer as a tool, vicariously.

We've become accustomed to repurposing and living vicariously through other people's work instead of going out and making our own.

Friends do give advice, but in the end, it's up to you. Although I think it is nice to have a guy's perspective on girls' issues in relationships and vice versa.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

Blacks who have not succumbed to the victim culture have been, are, and will be doing quite well - all on their own, without handouts, affirmative action, and other patronizing measures.

If you're not a victim, and you don't need help, then you're definitely seen as a threat as a woman.

Two centuries ago, when our nation lost its sovereignty and was partitioned among Russia, Prussia and Austria, Polish Romantics like the poet and nationalist Adam Mickiewicz declared that independence would come only with great sacrifice. Ever since, this myth of the martyr, or messianic victim, has emerged during times of national crisis.

I don't do damsel in distress very well. It's hard for me to play a victim.

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.