Quotes About Independence

I don't represent large corporations and I don't want their money.

I DON'T smoke anymore, except on National No Smoking Day as a protest against those who want to control our lives.

You can rise above it. This country gives you opportunity if you want to take it, so don't blame your environment. I look down on people who use their environment as a crutch.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

I'm a free person; I feel terribly free. They could put me in chains and I still would be free because my thoughts would be mine - and that's all I want to have.

She obeys me, but only because she wants to. It's the only justification for obedience, Ged observed.

The worst thing you can do is say to yourself, "I want to be just like somebody else." You have to absorb knowledge from someone else, but ultimately you have to find your own voice.

If you want something done right, do it yourself.

They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken.

I think I couldn't give myself any advice apart from just do exactly what I want.

I can do anything I want to do really, I might as well.

There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.

The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it's bad if you say anything.

Focus on yourself -- do what you want, when you want, without having to consider anyone else's agenda.

All alike, you men. You only want the satisfaction of being through with us first, that's all. So far I've had the good fortune of beating you to it. So I am heartless.

I think the way I want to think. I live the way I want to live.

I realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be.

You hold your head up. You submitting to me doesn't mean you're anything less...the very last thing I want is for you to be some mindless puppet.

Rules are invented for lazy people who don't want to think for themselves.

Modelling isn't something I'm doing to prove people wrong. It's something I'm doing because it's what I want to do

Just wear what you want, if you like something that's all that matters. Dress for yourself not for other people.

God save us from the people who want to do what's best for us.

Now, if someone wants to spit on me, I just roll up the window of my BMW 540i.

I see myself on top, doing what I love to do, and doing it the way I want to do it. No rules, just doing my own thing.