I don't have an iPod! It's never appealed to me, really.

I don't pay attention to the ratings.

Being my own boss and working inside an industry that's not really an industry, I need to keep busy and keep working. The only way to make money in music - unless you're managing someone - is to tour,...

I'd be absolutely happy to go back and make a smaller picture. I never want my choices to be dictated by budget. That's one of the reasons why I take so much pride in being able to make films for $2...

Football was the best route to obtain my independence.

The Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, the constitutions of the several states, and the organic laws of the territories all alike propose to protect the people in the...

The most important thing, I've found, is to be self-reliant.

They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens, chiefly from around Independence, organized to drive them off.

Millions of Americans cannot tell you who lived at Mount Vernon or who wrote the Declaration of Independence - let alone the Emancipation Proclamation. But they know that to be 'a Benedict Arnold' is...

The cost of independence has dropped.

I will no longer be judged by the standards of others. I will judge myself. I will not live by someone else's rules. I will make my own.

I was never able to accept anyone else's support but my own –

Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them.

You're a tree in whose shadow we can't thrive. We want to be our own.

A dynamic person can easily grow and become a civil human when they start to live independently.

What others think about you is none of your business.

I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do.

parents are not for leaning upon, but rather exist to make leaning unnecessary.

If I have to 'catch' a man to get a husband, I don't want one.

On him at the time of his majority, and was more than enough for his needs. He would live his own life, then, far from Melbourne and parents, carve his own kind of niche. But the imminence

did not hesitate to be disagreeable to preserve my independence-applied

I did not hesitate to be disagreeable to preserve my independence.

Jack Reed, whom The New York Times had labeled the Bolshevik agitator, hesitated and then equivocated on the stand. But by then the defense of The Masses was plain: criticism of the government didn't...

The aesthetic is an individual rather than a societal concern.

Where we choose to be, where we choose to be--we have the power to determine that in our lives. We cannot reel time backward or forward, but we can take ourselves to the place that defines our being.