"The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself."

-- Sonia Sotomayor

#Childhood Quotes #Independence Quotes #Adults Quotes

“For me, you have to not have a formula. You have to not even sit down and say, 'I want to write right now.' It has to just kind of come out. It's not something you can plan.”

Source : Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. January 10, 2007.
“I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.”
“Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing.”
“It was a Monday and they walked on a tightrope to the sun.”
“'Red Knot' is a film that I shot in Antarctica almost three years ago on a boat. It was a film that was improvised and it had very interesting circumstances while making the film, obviously. We were on a small boat bobbing around in Antarctica. It was a really remarkable experience.”
“I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.”

Source : "Senator McCain, Please Define 'Free Nation'" by Vanessa Edwards Foster, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 14, 2008.
“I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There is no country that has the best men.”

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