Quotes About Independence

No one pretty much tells me what kind of horror films to make.

You graduate from film school and move to Hollywood. Hollywood tells you, 'We're not the place for you to make films,' so you decide you have to make a film yourself.

I don't get holiday, I'm self-employed. That's a really big risk for anyone in telly.

I'd like to do radio forever, really. I prefer it to telly. It's more immediate and I'm in control of it all.

I have enough experience, and I can do my Telugu dubbing perfectly without any help.

I have a fierce temper. I've mastered it over the years, but when I'm angry, no one can force me to do anything I don't want to.

Our system presumes that there are certain principles that are more important than the temper of the times. And you must have a judge who is detached, who is independent, who is fair, who is committed only to those principles and not public pressures of other sort. That's the meaning of neutrality.

Scotland needs comedy more than ever. With the independence debate, finally after 300 years, reaching room temperature.

Being a Sikh meant having to do what Mom and Dad said, and going to temple, and Mom and Dad choosing who I would marry. But going to an American school taught me that I was the one who's supposed to make those choices.

Record companies feel they are the culture. Hip-hop has to begin to define, protect, and promote itself, and that's why we founded the Temple.

If a man can reduce his needs to zero, he is truly free: there is nothing that can be taken from him and nothing anyone can do to hurt him.

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

Do I dare disturb the universe? Yes, I do, I do. I think. Jerry suddenly understood the poster--the solitary man on the beach standing upright and alone and unafraid, poised at the moment of making himself heard and known in the world, the universe.

They tell you to do your own thing but they don't mean it. They don't want you to do your thing, not unless it happens to be their thing, too.

You bring up your children to be self-reliant and independent and they double-cross you and become self-reliant and independent.

I'll win the way I always do by being gone when they come. When they look, they'll see nothing of me and where I am they'll not know. This, I thought, is my way and right or wrong it's me. Being dead, then, I'll have won completely.

Giving to those in need what they could be gaining from their own initiative may well be the kindest way to destroy people.

When we do for those in need what they have the capacity to do for themselves, we disempower them.

Never do for the poor what they have (or could have) the capacity to do for themselves.

developing the dependency-free zone is the real challenge.

Old guns are better than no guns.

I'm not a good dog trainer for the same reasons I am not a Republican: I endorse all forms of social anarchy.

Insult me all you want, you red-eyed son of the devil," Ernie roared in a very good imitation of Muhammad Ali. "We both know who wears the pants in my house, if I choose to wear pants at all. I have committed to nothing, and I am the king of my castle!" "You want to call me back after you call and get permission?" "You know it, brother.

a part of me had always known that i'd stayed in the relationship longer than i should because i lacked the confidence to believe i'd find someone else who would accept me and my condition. i was also smart enough to know that would never happen until i fully accepted me.