Quotes About Independence

My parents keep me grounded. I've spent a lot of time on my own in my life, and I've learnt the hard way.

Leave women to find their sphere.

I think Nina Simone has had an amazing journey. She was spicy and she had attitude and she didn't care, she wanted her money in a paper bag and don't mess with me and I've been doing some research on that so.

When you get to a certain age in society, they want to dictate to you when you should pack it in and that you should mentally grab a cane, a box of Depends, Geritol, listen to the oldies, and not eat spicy food after 9 o'clock.

I don't want to be like Spider-man or Batman, the do-gooder kind of thing.

I'm interested to see what happens to Spike Lee with limited resources, you know? I love Spike Lee's movies. But you know what? I kinda liked his movies when he used to scramble and fight more for them.

I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.

I realized the world spins without me having to spin it.

I love my brother. But I'm not a yo-yo. He can't just keep spinning me in and out of his life.

I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, don't accept your limitations, jump before you're pushed, leap before you look.

There's a certain je ne sais quoi that Americans have in spades - a we-can-do-anything spirit that makes so many things possible for all of us. We're rugged individualists, aspirational in nature, and we like to think for ourselves.

Ever since I was a small child, I've had this feeling - it's in my nature, and so it's not even pretentious - that if everyone's going one way, I will go the other, just by some kind of spirit of defiance.

The spirit of liberalism is to create free men; it is not the regimentation of men.

The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.

My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me, 'No, it's like this.'

The Spirit is a kind of postmodern loner hero. He comes from nowhere; he has no real relationship to anything.

My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.

I've never been a fan of pretense or procrastination. After all, our state is defined by its independent, outspoken spirit.

The pill was the liberation of the spirit of women.

Thanks to the arrival of such spirited and purposeful groups as X, the Blasters, R.E.M., and the Replacements, American rock has made a spectacular comeback.

I'm a free spirit; more people should become free spirits.

After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor.

I like a spirituality with a God that knows how to drive a car, that knows how to take his girl to the dance club, dance all night, have a little drink, kiss the kid when they come back in and go to sleep. God doesn't need a chauffeur - he needs to drive himself.

If I'm on fire, don't spit on me. I won't spit on you. That's respect. You go your way, and I'll go mine.