I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.
While Republican voters have remained universally supportive of their President, Democrats and Independents are returning to a more naturally critical stance.
Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries.
Having parents who were hard working, blue collar, and staunchly independent, neither political party's positioning really impressed me.
I think when you're 14 years old, I think you're sort of looking for markers that prove you're an adult and you're independent of your parents.
Since being quite young, I've had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.
The policy of the house of Austria, which aimed at destroying the independence of Hungary as a state, has been pursued unaltered for three hundred years.
Governments cannot assume or expect that the ECB will always facilitate their funding independently of the achievement of their fiscal and other policy objectives.
It's been difficult to find roles that are independent, strong, and self-assured; I always say I can't play the princess. I'm not a pretty princess! I'm a tomboy.
Insofar as men gain time, ease, independence, or liberty from women's domestic labors, they lack incentive to change.
I grew up in a very literate, very independent household where people spoke their ideas and were very supportive of helping each other find their own way.
We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources.
I know that my mind is so A.D.D., and I want instant gratification - and photography can provide me with that - but at some point, I want to make an independent feature.
The fact is, I can vote for anybody; independents, Republicans, Democrats. But I'm a registered Democrat in the District of Columbia.
I'm in a position where I'm being continually knocked back for the kind of independent films I want to be in because people don't know who I am.
Which is why I felt I was truly blessed this year, with leads in two nice films, and also the luxury of being able to do a studio film and an independent afterwards was fantastic.
There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.
If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.
It is their attachment to us rather than their independence from us that we value in our pets.
For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources.
A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.
