Quotes About Self-reliance

Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.

I don't have to talk about critics - I don't care.

I don't really care about the critics or when people talk good about me. It can't affect you. I'm one to trust myself and to look for more.

I have never asked the crowd for their approval, and I will never start.

I was never part of the crowd.

I will always do what I want to do and I won't go with the crowd.

If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.

If I want to put makeup on, then, cool, I'll do that. But it's not going to be my crutch.

A lot of people cry and complain and put their hand out and beg. It never goes well.

I could sit around and cry about losing jobs because I'm not a TV star, or I could go and take something into my own hands and try to make it in this world, too.

There were people who would complain about their jobs, and my mother would walk away from that job. I liked that a lot about her. She was a very, very creative woman, and eventually, she stopped working outside the house, and she just had her own customers whom she made clothes for.

Customers have access to information that gives them much more control over their lives.

I'm not cynical, but I don't really want to have a boyfriend or husband again.

I'd love to write a book and dabble in TV a little more - but only if it's right. I'm not going to go out there and beg anyone for a job.

I didn't come from the sort of family where Daddy would provide - so I had to work.

If I gave a damn what other people think of me, I would be more like other people.

I don't give a damn about Hollywood.

I'll go my way by myself, love is only a dance.

No one can hand you anything as a dancer. You have to earn it.

My challenge to all Republicans is to invent the systems and approaches to help people help themselves.

We have a lot of systems here on board the space station, and we can't call a repair man when one of them breaks.

Self-reliance is not always possible; we have to acknowledge that there are situations of dramatic crisis which will force us to substitute non-existing public delivery systems.

I sleep with my gun on my bedside table. I live alone; it is my protection and makes me feel safer.

I have a different mentality when it comes to catering to a man, I just won't allow it. Don't get me wrong, I'll do for you but I'm not taking care of no man and catering to him for life; he better be bringing something to the table. I learned that from my mother and my grandmother.