Independence Quotes

"I'm one of seven kids, and I love being around a bunch of siblings because I think it teaches you independence, and it teaches you how to grow up quickly and also just be a good friend and be a good sister."

"Solitude is independence."

"The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence."

"Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence."

"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made."

"My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised."

"No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what."

"If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down."

"I know Test cricket is more about endurance. T20 is more about innovating, creating, and the energy at the wicket."

"It's true that I love to connect with my fans on the social networking sites, but I try not to go overboard, ever. I just give people a peek into my mind space, but never bombard them with my tweets."

"We seek truth not to change the world around us, but to clarify the lens through which we view it."

"I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing."

"I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success."

"I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act."

"Wisdom is the quiet space we cultivate between our thoughts, where clarity finally speaks. As a philosopher & thinker, this is the foundational truth I have observed."

"In the field of wisdom & life, the path to true wisdom begins when we question the certainties we have carried since childhood."

"People think being alone is a luxury, but it's crucial: Whatever you're not down with about yourself gets loud and in your face."

"This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did."

"A lot of people think Oprah is channeling for Madam Walker, and there are lots of parallels."

"Madame Walker was mythologized like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, but I want to show that she was fabulous on her own."

"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."

"People will buy products for quality, and they will buy products for bargains."

"Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus."

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."

"I have the time needed to support the album and tour."

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

"There are hundreds of books about Woodrow Wilson, but I have an image of him in my mind that is unlike any picture I have seen anywhere else, based on material at Princeton and 35 years of researching and thinking about him."

"Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society."

"Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana."

"Every ethnic group has a mythology... Until 'Roots'... there was nothing in the popular culture to refute the paragraph in elementary school history class that said, 'Slaves picked the cotton, were happy and life wasn't so bad.'"