Independence Quotes
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In July, 1892, fate suddenly granted me financial independence.
Carl Spitteler -
Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.
Walt Disney
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Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it.
Ian Smith -
How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.
Hermann Hesse -
My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.
Valerie Trierweiler -
The house of Austria has publicly used every effort to deprive the country of its legitimate Independence and Constitution, designing to reduce it to a level with the other provinces long since deprived of all freedom, and to unite all in a common sink of slavery.
Lajos Kossuth -
It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.
Tamara Mellon -
Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.
Carla Bruni
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Independence did not mean chauvinism and narrow nationalism.
Said Musa -
As we explore ways to bring price relief and bolster our country's energy independence, one significant energy source has emerged as a potential solution, hydrogen fuel cells.
Dan Lipinski -
Independence doesn't - doesn't equate to moderates. Millions of independents are pro-life. Millions of independents believe marriage is between a man and a woman.
Gary Bauer -
I learned that the richness of life is found in adventure. . . . It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. There is stagnation only in security.
William O. Douglas -
Education remains one of the black community's most enduring values. It is sustained by the belief that freedom and education go hand in hand, that learning and training are essential to economic quality and independence.
Marian Wright Edelman -
In the modern era, Jewish sovereignty over the land of our ancestors is a relatively short phenomenon. From the time of the successful Maccabean revolt to the Roman annexation in 63 BC constitutes about 100 years of Jewish rule. Combined with Israel's independence in 1948, this is about 160 years of effective sovereignty.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.
Albert Einstein -
Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?
Narendra Modi -
He thought about the story his daughter was living and the role she was playing inside that story. He realized he hadn't provided a better role for his daughter. He hadn't mapped out a story for his family. And so his daughter had chosen another story, a story in which she was wanted, even if she was only being used. In the absence of a family story, she'd chosen a story in which there was risk and adventure, rebellion and independence.
Donald Miller -
How can we have our privacy? How can we have our independence now in these times with these cameras? Because I think privacy and our solitude is really important.
Parker Posey -
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
Calvin Coolidge -
The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.
George Richards Minot
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I don't believe there will be anyone who will use violence or who will want to provoke violence that will tarnish the irreproachable image of the Catalan independence movement as pacifist.
Carles Puigdemont -
I value my own independence so highly that I can fancy no degradation greater than that of having another man perpetually directing and advising and lecturing me, or even planning too closely in any way about my actions. He might be the wisest of men, or the most powerful - I should equally rebel and resent his interference.
Elizabeth Gaskell -
Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.
Carlos Fuentes -
The way I was grew up gave me a slight fearlessness and a sense of independence. There are things about it that have definitely informed me. And then, as a parent, it's done the opposite. It's made me feel much more protective. There are boundaries in my kids' lives that I don't think I had.
Sam Taylor-Johnson