Quotes About Self-sufficiency

Financially, I'm fine. But it's good to work. I'm not capable of doing nothing.

There are libertarian conservatives, fiscal conservatives, and social conservatives. I feel conservative in terms of limited government, individual responsibility, self-sufficiency - that sort of thing.

I like to come and go as I please which means I'm not anxious to dash back from the studio to fix dinner for a man.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

I live about five hours away from a Whole Foods and Trader Joe's, so I have to make extra sure that I get everything I need, otherwise I'm totally screwed.

The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?

This work thing really has a specific purpose for me, which is to be an independent human being who doesn't rely on a guy or a family to be able to support myself. It's not about showing somebody that I'm successful. It's about having a wider breadth of option.

You don't necessarily need Bollywood for wider acclaim.

I am not good wife material because I'm fiercely independent and like to go off and do my own thing.

I don't have a mortgage, I don't have a wife and I don't have kids, so I'm quite happy bumbling along.

My wife, Daniela, and I live in an old house from 1810 with three fireplaces at the end of a dead-end dirt road on Cape Cod, so I turn the trees into firewood for us and a friend of mine sells the rest.

I no longer need to be someone's wife. I'm doing okay as I am.

I guess drag queens, by nature, have to do everything. When you start being a drag queen, you're grabbing the microphone, hosting the shows. Then, you're setting the microphone down and doing the number. You're spending the day before doing your wigs and sewing your costumes. You're doing everything.

I have heard of Texas pioneers living without bread or anything made from the cereals for months without suffering, using the breast-meat of wild turkeys for bread. Of this kind, they had plenty in the good old days when life, though considered less safe, was fussed over the less.

On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers.

I mean, I tend to do my own thing, and that usually crosses purposes with everyone around me.

Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen. Start building up your larder! We don't even use that term any more.

I just want to do things on my own terms as much as possible.

I'm not a big eater. I'm a terrible cook, and so I don't cook for myself.

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.

Rich," the Old Man said dreamily, "is not baying after what you can't have. Rich is having the time to do what you want to do. Rich is a little whisky to drink and some food to eat and a roof over your head and a fish pole and a boat and a gun and a dollar for a box of shells. Rich is not owing any money to anybody, and not spending what you haven't got.

These are reflected in two articles he wrote in 1933 in praise of 'National Self-Sufficieny', which combined a moral attack on the international division of labour with the argument that 'most modern mass-production processes can be performed in most countries and climates with almost equal efficiency'.

The primary fantasy of connection leads to a posture of pseudo-independence in the developing child—"I don't need anyone, I can take care of myself"—yet the irony is that the more the person relies on fantasy, the more helpless he or she becomes in the real world and the more he or she demands to be taken care of.