A Quote by Abby Lee Miller

I was raised to be independent.

Abby Lee Miller

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Abby Lee Miller
American - Dancer
Born: September 21, 1965

When you're single, you're very independent. Very independent women raised me. We didn't have a lot of male figures as the head of our household, so I got, and took on, a lot of that strong spirit from the matriarchs in my family.

Tichina Arnold

'End strength' - the total number of government employees you can have at the end of the year. That's a separate exercise and requires independent energy, independent effort with the Congress to get the ceiling of your government employees raised.

Michael Hayden

I was raised a Democrat, and now I'm an Independent.

Powers Boothe

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

Kamala Harris

I was raised by a single black deaf woman, so I am as independent as they come.

Grace Gealey

My mom raised me to be an independent woman, and if there is anything I want in life, to go after it. And that nobody could hold me back. The only person that could do that was myself. That's the core of who I am and she ingrained that in me at a really young age, so I've been an independent, strong person my whole life.

Liz Carmouche

I've never considered myself a feminist, but I'm happy that I've been raised as a strong, independent woman.

Shruti Haasan

I never had the college experience, so I have raised my girls to be more work-oriented and motivated to be financially independent.

Yolanda Hadid

Courage, an independent spark from heaven's bright throne, by which the soul stands raised, triumphant, high, alone.

Unknown

I find families intriguing, perhaps because I did not grow up in one. I was raised by a feminist, independent, single mother, a divorcee.

Elif Safak

You have independent films and independent music, but you don't have independent theme parks - I think, in a way, Burning Man is as close, probably, as you get.

Peter Gabriel

I was raised to be a very strong and independent woman without anybody ever saying the word feminist or having any political conversation.

Kellyanne Conway

An independent judiciary does not mean judges independent of the Constitution from which they derive their power or independent of the laws that they are sworn to uphold.

Thomas Sowell

I should say that being independent in the modern model means independent in a very interdependent world. An independent Scotland is not apart from the rest of the United Kingdom.

Nicola Sturgeon

The 1960s and 1970s were the real years for independent film, because they were really independent. Plus, there were hundreds of distributors. There were all these companies that basically did exploitation, but they were independent. Now, there are very few independent distributors.