Quotes About Independence

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

So instead of trying to monitor yourself for all the different emotions and what they might mean, simply monitor yourself for the few stages of crowd formation. By avoiding the tell-tale symptoms that accompany becoming part of the crowd, you will automatically avoid emotionalism.

Nearly every time I strayed from the herd, I've made a lot of money. Wandering away from the action is the way to find the new action.

There is nothing better than having to struggle and make your own way.

Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

Allow children to choose the books they wish to read to themselves, even if they don't meet your high standards.

I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.

I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.

I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.

If I'm free, it's because I'm always running.

If the mountains fell in the sea, Let it be, it ain't me. Got my own world to live through And I ain't gonna copy you. Now, if 6 turned up to be 9, I don't mind, I don't mind. If all the hippies cut off their hair, I don't care, I don't care. Did, 'cos I got my own world to live through And I ain't gonna copy you.

We are the people our parents warned us about.

[A knuckleball is] a curve ball that doesn't give a damn.

When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.

No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life.

Why can't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone.

You really can't go through life wanting to be liked. It's the hardest lesson to learn. Once you say, "Fuck it, I don't care," once you've got that attitude, then it's easy to relax, to talk, laugh, cry, whatever.

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

I have a lifelong habit for dealing with dejection: I leave town. I first ran away from home at three. Mother helped pack my bag.

I've traveled far and wide, always alone, so therefore I've never been in Cahoots.

And as old Thomas Jefferson said, 'Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not.' I hate to plow.

I was then operating under the Edna Ferber theory: Being an old maid is like death by drowning—a really delightful sensation after you have ceased struggling.

You can't love me.' 'Don't be bossy. I can do what the hell I like.

To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of your life, you are the only solution.