Maverick Quotes - Page 2

• The whole Gorillaz concept is one for mavericks; it's a way for people who never have a chance to work together being able to ally behind the cartoons.

  Damon Albarn

  People, Working Together, Cartoon

  Source: www.today.com

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• By doing what I do, by just staying, pardon me, true to myself and maintaining my maverick position, unbranded, unbought in a corporate sense, I've managed to migrate to and participate in the work of people far younger than my own children. This astounds me. It makes me feel all at once, beyond retirement age, as a player in the present tense. I'm a lucky guy.

  Van Dyke Parks

  Retirement, Children, Player

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Our people do not want barren theories from their democracy. Maury Maverick has expressed very quaintly, but clearly, what they really want when he says: 'We Americans want to talk, pray, think as we please and eat regular'.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Thinking, People, Democracy

  Speech to the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco in 1939. "America's Advocate: Robert H. Jackson" by Eugene C. Gerhart, 1958.

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• I've seen that phenomenally successful people believe they can learn something from everybody. I call them 'mavericks with mentors.' Richard Branson, for instance, is a total maverick but he surrounds himself with incredibly successful, smart people and he listens to them.

  Brendon Burchard

  Smart, Believe, Successful

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• Twitter is a form of free speech, and I'm all for that. But if Cee Lo Green, a maverick of sorts, can't get on Twitter and say something outlandish or outrageous, then what is the whole point of Twitter at all?

  Cee Lo Green

  Speech, Green, Form

  "Cee Lo Green Is Fking Outrageous". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. February 5, 2012.

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• Along with the differences that abide in each of us, there is also in each of us a maverick, the darling stubborn one who won't listen, who insists, who chooses preference or the spirited guess over yardsticks or even history. I suspect this maverick is somewhat what the soul is, or at least that the soul lives close by and companionably with its agitating and inquiring force.

  Mary Oliver

  Differences, Soul, Stubborn

  Mary Oliver (2005). “Long Life: Essays and Other Writings”, p.22, Da Capo Press

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• Someone once described me as a maverick and that's what I would say. I'm a maverick not by choice but by conviction.

  Van Morrison

  Choices, Conviction

  "Van Morrison: Too Late to Stop Now". Book by Steve Turner, 1993.

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• History will dictate what my legacy is. And 'maverick' is fine, because I am.

  Al Davis

  Legacy, Fine

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• I'm really thankful to have my own record label. I've always looked up to people like Madonna when she launched Maverick Records. Even Jay Z and Sean "Puffy" Combs, who's a mentor and also gave me a shot when I was an independent artist in Atlanta. He came to my show, and he said, "I just want people to know about you."

  Janelle Monae

  Independent, Artist, Atlanta

  "Janelle Monae: 'Silence is our enemy, and sound is our weapon'". Interview with Brittany Vickers, www.cnn.com. October 22, 2015.

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• The new independent spirit at Warner Music is a perfect fit for a stand-alone label like Maverick.

  Guy Oseary

  Independent, Perfect, Labels

  "Madonna settles feud with Warner Music". The Associated Press, www.today.com. June 15, 2004.

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• I don't live by "The Rules" you know, and if there's one person who has influenced me in that way of thinking, someone who is a maverick, someone who does 'that' to the system then it's Ian Botham.

  Ricky Gervais

  Thinking, Doe, Way

  "Fictional character: David Brent". "The Office" (2001 - 2003), www.imdb.com.

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• some people seem to graze like sheep in the placid pastures of their faith. Some of them were born there and never broke away ... Others, after some wandering, found shelter there and are quiet and content. They look with a bland mystification at the mavericks.

  Marjorie Holmes

  Sheep, People, Religion

  Marjorie Holmes (1985). “I'Ve Got to Talk to Somebody, God: A Woman's Conversations With God”, Doubleday Books

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• I don't think the whole of Iraq would be under al-Sadr, but I think he would be the predominant force on the Shia side. Quite contrary to his sort of maverick, firebrand image, he's shown a propensity to deal with the other side, to look for compromises, to negotiate. You might have a loose federation [in Iraq].

  Patrick Cockburn

  Thinking, Iraq, Would Be

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature, but, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.

  Douglas Adams

  Nice, Pieces, Littles

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.18, Del Rey

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• The herd instinct seems to be the strongest human emotion, one that the race is constantly breeding off as the mavericks are liquidated. Happiness is running with the crowd.

  John Train

  Running, Race, Crowds

  John Train (1994). “The craft of investing”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• When I got to the Mavericks people were all giving me advice - change this, change that - and one thing that I didn't do was fire anybody.

  Mark Cuban

  Fire, People, Giving

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• The [nonprofit] sector is the natural home of nonmajoritarian impulses, movements and values. It comfortably harbors innovators, maverick movements, groups which feel they must fight for their place in the sun, and critics of both liberal conservative persuasion.

  John W. Gardner

  Home, Fighting, Groups

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• Do not cringe and make yourself small if you are called the black sheep, the maverick, the lone wolf. Those with slow seeing say that a noncomformist is a blight on society. But it has been proven over the centuries, that being different means standing at the edge, that one is practically guaranteed to make an original contribution, a useful and stunning contribution to her culture.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Mean, Healing, Sheep

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• Even the most incorrigible maverick has to be born somewhere. He may leave the group that produced him-he may be forced to-but nothing will efface his origins, the marks of which he carries with him everywhere. I think it is important to know this and even find it a matter for rejoicing, as the strongest people do, regardless of their station. On this acceptance, literally, the life of a writer depends.

  James A. Baldwin

  Acceptance, Thinking, Origin Of Life

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• You know, many people have said that I'm on the edge and I'm maverick for some of the big operations that I've done. I'm not at all. I pray; I ask God to give me wisdom, 'Should I do it?', guidance in terms of how to do it, who to consult with. All those kind of things are incredibly important.

  Benjamin Carson

  People, Giving, Important

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• Living in Dallas, I root for the Mavericks and the Stars and the Cowboys, but I've always pulled for the Chicago Cubs. I enjoy watching them play.

  Lee Trevino

  Sports, Stars, Cowboy

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• He is obviously an American hero. John McCain is a vanishing breed. He is an iconoclast, he is in his own mind and often in reality a maverick. And I think, you know, you having spent the time that you spent in the Senate know that this is true.

  John Heilemann

  Hero, Reality, Thinking

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• We used to have a War Office, but now we have a Ministry of Defence, nuclear bombs are now described as deterrents, innocent civilians killed in war are now described as collateral damage and military incompetence leading to US bombers killing British soldiers is cosily described as friendly fire. Those who are in favour of peace are described as mavericks and troublemakers, whereas the real militants are those who want the war.

  Tony Benn

  Peace, Military, Real

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• It used to be controversial whether smoking caused lung cancer, it used to be controversial whether HIV caused AIDS. Now, there are a few mavericks who deny those things. In the case of climate change, I think the debate is going the same way in that there is a strong consensus that it is a serious matter.

  Martin Rees

  Strong, Cancer, Thinking

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• Somebody asked me what do you regret. I said, well I was offered the role of Maverick in 'Top Gun' and I turned it down.

  Scott Baio

  Regret, Gun, Roles

  "Actor Scott Baio on New Reality Show, Commitment Issues". "The Big Story With John Gibson", www.foxnews.com. July 23, 2007.

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