Quotes About Independence

'Fortitude' is like the world in microcosm. It's like watching America or Russia, only you're isolated. Once you're inside, you can't escape.

That's why I like the indies: because I like being who I am. I get to be who I am in the ring, on the microphone, everywhere. It's great. I never have to get out of character because I am Matthew Riddle.

I'm a true centrist: my beliefs put me in the middle... You know what happens to people who drive in the middle of the road? They get run over.

I'm not good with limitations. I tend to like to find my own. It hurts sometimes, but it's good. I'm little extreme in that sense - the middle ground is not my forte.

I don't want a middle-aged white man telling me how to write my feelings. It's not gonna work for me.

I was a college dropout, hitchhiking across the Midwest. That was part of the old, adventurous spirit.

I'd run a mile if anyone in the Royal Family asked me to marry them!

My loyalty to my father had increased in proportion to the miles between us.

We're the roughest people in the way we play and live, and that is because Americans come from people who all got up one morning and went 5,000 miles, and that was a time in the 19th century when it wasn't so easy to do.

When you play with Miles, you are on your own, and then it's you who decides what to contribute.

When I was 12, I used to ride my scooter two miles to a comics shop, which I can't imagine letting my kids do by themselves through the city.

The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks.

I like my cheese, I like my milk in my coffee, and nobody's gonna tell me any different.

We have tried to make it clear that the United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it is kicked in the flanks.

I don't know what happened to the millennials. I think too much coddling is not a good thing.

I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one.

I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.

I was, like, 22 years old. I had half a million dollars sitting in the bank. I had no expenses. Life was great.

I just want to be self-sustainable so that I can continue to just do what I like to do and not make a million dollars. Nobody needs a million dollars.

Man, just give me a couple of million dollars and let me go on my own, and I will be just fine.

A million people a day go to work in this city and they drive themselves. I don't see why I'm any different.

When I was about 18, I started playing restaurants for £150 a night. I felt like a millionaire.

I was ahead of my classmates in some ways. While they were enjoying Mills & Boons, I was reading Ayn Rand.

I don't want to be anyone's mimic.