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Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive. -- Alan Rickman
The new independent spirit at Warner Music is a perfect fit for a stand-alone label like Maverick. -- Guy Oseary
There is no 'Top Gun 2' in which Maverick is not the starring role. -- Christopher McQuarrie
History will dictate what my legacy is. And 'maverick' is fine, because I am. -- Al Davis
I always wanted to be an independent maverick, writing plays and putting them on myself. -- Christian McKay
I am a crazy Maverick fan. I would go there if Dallas was a great entertainment center. -- Flula Borg
There was a period when I wrote in Nashville for Maverick and then Warner/Chappell, and it was interesting. -- Benmont Tench
Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy. -- Charlton Heston
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
The characters I've played, especially Bret Maverick and Jim Rockford, almost never use a gun, and they always try to use their wits instead of their fists. -- James Garner
Well, American composers are the best composers. At this time in the world, we are where the energy is. We are the most diverse, the most iconoclastic, the most maverick, and the most skillful. -- David Del Tredici
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
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
I'm a maverick. I've always been a maverick. -- Sonny Bono
I may be a maverick, but it doesn't mean I like playing tricks. -- Chen Guangbiao
My main motivation is not to get bored. I'm just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation. -- Vikram Seth
If you're used to being a maverick, then people don't get surprised when you start acting strangely. -- Richard C. Armitage
The most successful people are mavericks who aren't afraid to ask why, especially when everyone thinks it's obvious. -- Robert Kiyosaki
The whole world loves a maverick and the whole world wants the maverick to achieve something nobler than simple rebellion. -- Kevin Patterson
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
If there is one maverick molecule in all the universe, then God is not sovereign. And if God is not sovereign, He is not God. -- R. C. Sproul
Anyone who strays too far from the majority view or the conventional wisdom is bound to be labeled "arrogant," "a maverick," "a Wildman," "weird," or even "crazy." -- John Eliot
Designers need to be mavericks, because the best way to design a successful object is to pretend that either it never existed or that people will be able to have a new behavior with it. -- Paola Antonelli
They've pursued their own agendas, and they've done what they've wanted to do and not pursued traditional careers in the music industry. They've followed their own instincts, and they are in many ways maverick performers. -- Neil Tennant
If you're calling yourself a maverick and you're not Dirk Nowitzki, then you are probably not one. In fact, this rule applies to anyone declaring themselves a 'God-fearing Christian' or a 'Man of the people.' -- Adam McKay
You do have to wonder how Jack Bauer, maverick hero of '24,' can stay hidden for so long when no matter where he goes, he always seems within range of a TV camera. Or six. -- Tom Shales
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
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
The critical ingredient is a maverick mind. Focus on trading vehicles, strategies and time horizons that suit your personality. In a nutshell, it all comes down to: Do your own thing (independence); and do the right thing (discipline). -- Gil Blake
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. -- David
In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don't care about my cinema. In Europe, they don't know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am only a maverick! -- Jonas Mekas
Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks. -- Isabel Allende
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? -- CeeLo Green
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
I've got a feeling that with the best coppers - and in fact the best people in any field of work - what sets them apart is a maverick quality. People who are not afraid to bend the rules in order to achieve the universally desired end. -- Ken Stott
It seems like everybody's weighing in on Trumps campaign - even Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. He said that Trump is 'probably the best thing to happen to politics in a long, long time.' Then Trump was like, 'Well, at least one Cuban loves me.' -- Jimmy Fallon
A maverick feels like he has no choice however difficult his choice of expression. In my case, it was going backwards into tonality. It seemed so wrong. The idea that progress is going into the past in a new way is very strange, even though there are precedents. -- David Del Tredici
Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged individualism usually leads to poverty, ostracism and disgrace. The rugged individualist is too often mistaken for the misfit, the maverick, the spoilsport, the sore thumb. -- Lewis H. Lapham
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
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. -- Ben Carson
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
I spend up to two hours a day on correspondence. Hearing from fans on the Internet and being able to directly respond to the fan base is exciting. You can cut out the middle man like the fan club... before a recent appearance in Tyler, Texas, I had fans reaching out on MySpace offering their lake house, Mavericks tickets. It was amazing. -- Josh Henderson
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
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
Taking risks, breaking the rules, and being a maverick have always been important but today they are more crucial than ever. -- Gary Hamel

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