Quotes About Independence

I've never hung around with any models. I've always hung around with my friends from school and kept myself to myself.

We can't begin to feed ourselves with a local-centric system if we lock up land in royal manor models.

I never really thought about the fact that there weren't female role models, because I had them in my life. The women I knew in my life were so strong.

'A New Model' is saying that women should be confident in who they are and that they can be their own role models.

I never really had role models or guys in the NBA to show me the ropes or be a friend, mentor to me like that.

While the kids are little, I want to maintain a job, keep a roof over their heads, and make them proud. I want them to have good female role models in their life.

When I was 21, I left college and set up business Swanky Modes with three friends in Camden, North London. We were four women who did not know much about business, so we learnt as we went along.

I have so many single girlfriends who fit themselves into the mold of what they think a guy's looking for. But being comfortable around men is about being comfortable with yourself. They gravitate toward confidence. Really, that is what they want to be around.

It was very tough to get people to believe in my project. Everyone had their own ideas, and they wanted to mold me into something I wasn't.

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

My mom wouldn't let me buy clothes she didn't like, so I dressed like a middle-aged woman in high school.

I started busking when I was 24. I was living with Mom and Dad. I'd broken up with my girlfriend and didn't know what I was doing with my life, and I thought, 'Well, this is the last shot - I'm going busking, and let's see what happens.'

Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad.

I used to say to my mom and dad all the time, 'I'm going to move to America.'

There were moments when I really just thought, I don't need anything and I don't need anyone. I just want to go away and disappear.

Momma was the important woman in our home. She never let me forget that she was boss. I was always in the shadow. Every time I tried to step out on my own, I was in trouble with her.

My momma told me a long time ago, 'not everybody has to like you.' And it's very true. I'm ok with that.

I never got with Dre for money because he didn't have a driver's license, a car or insurance... or a house. We lived with his Auntie, who I ended up calling mommy.

I really feel like because I had my son so young, I didn't want everyone's help. I think people felt entitled to give advice, so I'm always very sensitive to moms and letting them feel their way out.

I began life as an absolute monarchist - on condition, of course, that I be that monarch.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

Money's the cheapest thing. Liberty and freedom is the most expensive.

Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies.

Because of the failure of the federal government to enforce federal law, we now have 'banks too big to fail,' unregulated Internet monopoly, and the evisceration of a dispersed and independent media.