Quotes About Independence

Through a huge duration of my life, someone has always picked up after me. And when you're on your own and you're trying to be independent, it's definitely different.

When Al Gore picked Joe Lieberman, it was a clear declaration of independence from President Clinton; no Democrat had been more critical of Clinton's misconduct.

Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters, educated though they may be, should continue to live at home until they were married.

I was the girl in the black leather jacket with the black fingernails, picked up after school by guys with loud cars and motorcycles. I carried straight-A grades, but I had a little trouble with rules. I tended to have a bit of an authority problem.

I don't let everyone pick me up. I only let myself be picked up by whomever I want to be picked up by.

When me and Eric did songs back in the day, we didn't go and sit down in front of no A&R. We made our album, and then, when we finished, we handed it in, and then we picked the best song for the first single.

When I was 20, I picked up and left my entire family, who were in Ohio, and moved to Los Angeles on my own.

I never nursed the ambition of being launched like a conventional heroine - instead, I picked up films which I liked and here I am.

I'm not always the best at picking out what goes together. I always want to be presentable, but more than that, I want to be different. I've never just wanted to follow the crowd. I think that goes back to when I was a boy. If everyone was doing one thing, I'd do something different.

I'm picking and choosing what I want to do.

I'm not picking up my phone and calling anyone for employment.

For me, picking a college was really difficult. I wish I had had my parents there kind of supervising me. But I chose well. I did OK.

It'd be great to have more categories in the rock and metal category - but I don't want that job, picking where everybody is supposed to go.

I don't want a pickle, just want to ride on my motorsickle.

Maybe at the end of the day, instead of a neighbor picking you up, a robot picks you up.

I like making things. I don't like getting my picture taken.

I like directing myself; I feel like it's one less person to give notes to. There's an efficiency in it. I'm also kind of a control freak. So I like the fact that it gives me more control in the overall picture.

I'm not one of these people that needs to feel loved. I don't need to see my picture everywhere.

Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.

I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.

I've been a freelancer my entire career, and, at any given time, I have several deadlines for all sorts of things, whether it's some magazine piece or ad copywriting or anything.

I couldn't write a female who fell to pieces every time something didn't go right in her life. She would just annoy me too much.

I went to the city, behind my mom's back, and got my belly button pierced.

My mother died when I was 17, and I moved in with my dad to make a 12-month pig's ear of retaking my A-levels.