Quotes About Independence

The reason I don't want anyone to control me is not because I want to be in control. I don't want anyone to control me because I don't want anyone to control anyone.

We don't have a monopoly. Anyone who wants to dig a well without a Hughes bit can always use a pick and shovel.

You come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It's made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary.

To be free means to choose, whose slave you want to be.­

For me, Spotify is not even a necessary evil. It helps me do what I want to do.

Just remember that you don't have to be what they want you to be.

It's difficult to exist as a woman, especially I think as a powerful woman. You want to stand strong and you want to be considered and equal.

I just want to make a tray of good tofu. If people want something else, they should go to the restaurants and shops.

Free people have a right to decide for themselves what they want to hear.

My mom taught me a lot. A lot about minding your own business and leaving other people's business alone. And let them think what they want.

Can you let me go to hell the way I want to?

Prosperity is the ability to do what you want to do at the instant you want to do it.

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.

We're breaking protocol here. That's the good thing about being President - I can do whatever I want.

A powerful woman is someone who exudes confidence and can be tough but fair and kind. And also knows how to get what she wants.

I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.

Money buys you the freedom to live your life the way you want.

In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field.

We're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to think.

If people think they can elicit from me whatever terms they want, they are mistaken.

Know what a loner is? He's a born cripple. He's a cripple because the only person he can live with is himself. It's his life, the way he wants to live. It's all for him.

these hips have never been enslaved, they go where they want to go they do what they want to do. these hips are mighty hips. these hips are magic hips

I will not take what you need to give me. I will take what you want to give me.

I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don't expect people to hand you a corn beef sandwich and wash your socks for you and unzip your fly for you.