Quotes About Independence

Sometimes you have to sacrifice because you see what the end goal is. When you have a dream and you want to get it done, you can't wait on other people.

A contrarian at heart, I am often guided by what I disagree with and don't want.

One hundred percent my mother, who would always say, "If you want something done, do it yourself." She must have said that 100 times to me - as a child, as a young woman, yesterday on the phone.

I had turned down other head chef jobs. I didn't want to take over someone else's cuisine. I wanted to start from scratch.

I'm a woman with a mission. I've learned to believe in myself, my vision and to do things the way I want them done.

I love to write and I assure you I write regularly... But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.

It's my future and my life and I can't make myself live the way someone else wants me to.

True Wealth is being able to do what I want, when I want. If I can do that, I am wealthy.

Marry me. You can have all the money and credit cards you want, and the glory of being Mrs Packer, but you've got to let me do what I want.

You cannot embrace the action or play the role correctly if you're having someone else do the movements for you. I want to be doing it myself, unless it's going to be a train wreck.

As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it.

I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now

I wear [American flag] all the time. It represents my freedom to speak about exactly what I want to, whenever I want to.

I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.

Obviously people don't want other people to tell them how to think or what to believe, or to tell them what's right politically and what's wrong.

Stop worrying about whether they can handle it. You want the truth? Your kid is hardier than you are... Kids are tough.

I've had to realize I need to distance myself a bit from relying on the feedback. I think it's wonderful but can also be poison. You don't want to buy into it too much.

The reason that the Croats want a state of their own is that they fear being cut into little pieces by the Serbs.

Women are much more comfortable making their own style rules now. They want pieces that will make their busy lives easier.

I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'

There is no such thing as a soulmate...and who would want there to be? I don't want half of a shared soul. I want my own damn soul.

Masturbation is not the happiest form of sexuality, but the most advisable for him who wants to be alone and think.

Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it.

I've always lived my life fearlessly, and what I want to do with my life, I do.