Quotes About Independence

The girls in my books are out solving their own problems.

One reason for keeping Disney animation separate from Pixar was that by solving their own problems when they finished a film, Disney could say, 'Nobody bailed us out; we did it.' And it's a very important social thing for them to do that.

The long-term solution in preventing another famine in Somalia is to promote self-reliance.

If some nation says to us, 'You can have aid, but you have to end confrontation,' then I say, 'Go to hell with your aid.'

I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but of late it appears that some men are born slaves, and I regret that they are not black, so all the world might know them.

Some people need safety nets. Some people need two safety nets. I've grown up with no safety nets around me.

Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well.

Some people do better on their own. I don't.

If I'm too strong for some people, that's their problem.

Be able to delegate, because there are some things that you just can't do by yourself.

I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.

I have this ridiculous chip on my shoulder, having been a dancer, that I feel like I really ought to be able to do everything myself - but there are some things I very clearly cannot.

I'm introverted by nature, and I need to have some things of my own.

I think some things that are better for me are not good for other people, innit. They need to run theirself. Everybody should run theirself.

When I was little, I would open up lawnmowers and try to make them go faster. I wasn't strong enough to do some things, so I'd wait for my dad to get home from work to help me. He was great, but he never really encouraged me, and I'll be the same if I have kids: I'll leave them to do their own thing.

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me.

Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.

I don't want to be in somebody else's movie, and then they make all the money. I've gotten offers to do the movies, but I won't sell myself short and be in somebody else's movie, like 'Boyz N the Hood.' I don't think I woulda done that.

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying.

We shouldn't accept things just because somebody says so.

One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you.

Don't assume that the answers are out there in the form of somebody else already doing something. Sometimes they are. But you have to think beyond that.