Quotes About Independence

I started on a very high note and I was alwasy able to choose. I want to be able to do that until my last breath. And to do that, you have to have money.

My senior year I was basically supporting myself, so it was like, Do you want to eat and pay the rent, or do you want to go to school? I wanted to eat and pay the rent.

I understand how to read people, and nurture them and guide them, and let them be free to do what they want to do.

Don't ever rope me in as a late-night talk show host. I don't want to be one.

Everybody can doubt, and they are free to doubt, and I don't want to convince anyone.

And woman is the same as horses: two wills act in opposition inside her. With one will she wants to subject herself utterly. With the other she wants to bolt, and pitch her rider to perdition.

Influence means power, and I don't want that. Whatever happens, here we do our own thing and put it out there for people to take or leave. We're not doing anything to influence them.

I've never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring.

Either you go to America with Mrs. Van Hopper or you come home to Manderley with me." "Do you mean you want a secretary or something?" "No, I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.

You know how people say they're either like a cat or a dog? I feel like a cat. I just want to be alone. Isn't that weird? It's a lot to take in.

Maybe this is extremely selfish of me, but I do things that I want to make and I don't really care about anyone else when I'm thinking about an idea.

I used to take my mother to Yosemite. When I turned 14, I got my driver's license, and that's where she'd want to go, so I'd go take her there for two weeks.

Like any parent, I just want the best for my kids, whatever they decide to do. They will choose what path they want to follow, and we will always be there to encourage them.

I can do what I want. And I always do, do what I want.

People tell me I need an assistant, but I dont want one.

I don't really do very well when I'm sent somewhere. A lot of magazines want to send you somewhere to do something. They want you to stow away on a ship, or something like that.

College is a magic time. Yes, youre young and fickle, but you want to be part of this college experience... Then you graduate from that. You have your first job, moving to a new city.

As someone who grew up in tough circumstances, I know that being on public assistance is not a spot that anyone wants to be in.

As a woman in Canada, I get to do whatever I want to do and I'm used to that. I'm used to not having my government tell me my life is going to be restricted because I'm female.

It was a relief to be able to do my own band, because I was very responsible for all this amazing music I didn't want to mess up before.

I'm in a unique position - I can do what I want.

The natural state of man is to want to be free. To have opportunities. To have choices.

I don't think we should have justices appointed that decide what they want to hear.

We want them [senators] to be themselves, and I told them, be yourselves and say what you want to say. Don't worry about me.