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Independence Quotes
"If I have to 'catch' a man to get a husband, I don't want one."
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"Journalists prize independence - not teamwork."
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"A dynamic person can easily grow and become a civil human when they start to live independently."
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"I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might have backfired. This I would just take as it came."
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"I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationship type."
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"To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility."
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"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready."
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"Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters."
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"Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places."
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"In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought."
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"I like being on my own. I mean, I'm sure a Pack's best for some dogs, but I've walked alone since I left my Pup Pack. I can look after myself."
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"In short, do you keep pace with those around you, or do you decide yourself just how you will live your life? The truth is...only you are qualified to set your standards. Only you can determine how you should live and what you will finally expect from yourself."
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"I don't think Russia will follow the United States's way. I don't think Russia will follow the French way. I'm sure Russia will find its own way."
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"On this walk I'd had so much time and space to actually figure out who I was without my mother's influence. I understood now: the things that my mother had found made her happy were not the same as the things that made me happy. And I understood: that was okay."
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"Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't need a partner to go running, you don't need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers."
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"The toddler craves independence, but he fears desertion."
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"Helplessness didn't have to be my identity, I wasn't condemned to it. I was willing - able - to change. Our enmeshment had been enabled by my belief that I needed [my mom] to help me, to take care of things for me - and to save me - but, back in the home where I'd learned this helplessness, I found I no longer felt that I was trapped in it."
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"I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself."
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"A woman needs a man like a fish needs a net."
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"Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners."
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"If you should not take your thoughts seriously, then why the thoughts of others?"
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"In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world."
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"Everything I do, writing, touring, travelling, it all comes from the punk and hardcore attitude, from that expression - from being open to try things but relying on yourself, taking what you have into the battle and making of it what you will, hoping you can figure it out as you go. Make some sense of it."
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"Do not pay attention to what the people around you are thinking and saying."
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"There are those who will resent you for not being confined by their limitations."
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"Very often it seems that people assume that by cutting the wings of others, it becomes easier to love them. They know so little about love that end up creating a perception of love that is devilish and demoniacal. And I end with no other choice but to remain single and let them go."
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"Phew. I thought I was going to have to slay a few dragons for you while I was here. 'I'm no damsel in distress, Your Highness. I can take care of myself."
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"I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do."
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"And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own."
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"Quit waiting for others to give to you, it is not going to happen."
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"I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master."
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"Independence is paramount and freedom holds a lot of new possibilities, if all the chances are given at the right time."
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"He that drinks his cider alone, let him catch his horse alone."
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"Goddamn it, do it yourself. You're five hundred years old and you can't use a telephone? Read the directions. What are you, an immortal idiot?"
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"Sharing your life with someone will have much more meaning coming from a place of independence rather than co-dependence."
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"Maybe the princess could save herself.""That sounds like a pretty good story too."
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"Some bridges you crossed on your own, no matter who drove you to the edge."
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"I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the consequences are also mine."
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"Because I feared I couldn't walk to Newton Centre without her, I needed to hike through desert, snow and woods alone.Childhood is a wilderness."
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"I was no longer following a trail. I was learning to follow myself."
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"I wanted both things: strength in my independence and also this new desire. This felt like the beginning of a new kind of love."
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"Jo couldn't even lose her heart in a decorous manner, but sternly tried to quench her feelings, and failing to do so, led a somewhat agitated life. She was mortally afraid of being laughed at for surrendering, after her many and vehement declarations of independence."
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"Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more."
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"You cannot really shame a man who sincerely does not care what others think of him."
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"If your treated like a puppet find a new ball of string."
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"My momma says we don't need a man to do our chores for us, 'cause we are smart and capable and I believe her even though Sara's mom says men were born to be our slaves, we just have to know how to manage them."
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"It's not as if I don't like men, I just have more respect for my washing machine."
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