Quotes About Independence

Contrary to conventional wisdom, the blue blazer's a bit of a loose cannon. A suit decided long ago what it wanted to be, and it doesn't want to hear your ideas, but a blue blazer only got around to half the job. So it leaves it up to you to find its bottoms. Gray slacks, blue jeans, patterns, white pants and different blue shades all work.

My biggest obstacle is trying to keep the music pure to what I want to release. I don't want any corporate suit telling me what story to tell.

I am the same man writing the music. I haven't changed directions to suit anyone except me.

If I find someone who is suitable, then I will definitely take the relationship ahead, but no one can force me to get married.

I love living on the road; I live out of a suitcase.

I came to New York with no money and just one suitcase. I had my family's emotional support, but they weren't able to help me financially.

I taught my girls to pick up their own suitcases. Pretty is as pretty does.

I'm from Miami, and when I was 18, I packed a suitcase and left for L.A. permanently to try and make it as an actor.

When I moved to L.A., I had nothing but a computer, a lighting set, and a suitcase.

The Syrians are better suited to sort out their internal divisions than anyone else.

I think some men like to be hands-on dads. It's up to individuals. We did it the way that suited us.

Maybe I'm more suited to making small independent films.

I haven't tried to model myself on anyone. I have my own action, and that suits me.

I like being permanently single. It suits me perfectly.

I wear glasses and suits, so I guess I am an indie artist.

I'm not this bright-eyed 17-year-old that got signed to a label and is listening to all these suits tell them the best plan of action.

I think 'One Woman Army' sums up the overall picture. I talk about love, about life, and I talk about what I want and would hope for and what I need as a woman. It kind of just says it all, you know?

Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.

I read Henry Miller's 'Nexus,' 'Sexus' and 'Plexus' the summer after I graduated from college. It cemented my decision to spurn any and all careers.

Mr. Speaker, high natural gas prices and the summer spike in gasoline prices serve as a stark reminder that the path to energy independence is a long and arduous one.

In the summer of 1776 our Founding Fathers sought to secure our independence and the liberties that remain the foundation of our nation today.

When I look back, I can say that the summer when I was 19 was a formative time for me. But at the time I just thought I was making tofu every night for dinner and going to work.

When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving to California. She laughed out loud - 2,000 miles in a what? Well, my best friend had an old Chevy. What could go wrong?

I was a paper boy, beginning the summer between my fourth-grade and fifth-grade years.