Quotes About Independence

I don't pay much attention to career or what other people think. I've always been quite arrogant.

You have to figure out ways to do things on your own. I do my own thing, and I don't pay much attention to what anyone else is doing.

You should not pay too much attention to what anyone tells you, including me. It's very, very important to follow your own map.

But I don't pay much attention to outside influences. People can say what they want. I always try to focus on my own environment.

I don't want people paying too much attention about what I am outside of football, what I'm doing, and asking: 'Who is N'Golo?'

I don't want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

I never had a budget, I never had a manager, I never had a PR. I never had nothing. I was getting everything straight out the mud.

Give me liberty or a bran muffin!

Give me liberty or give me a bran muffin!

When I was 18, I went to the East Coast of America, got mugged, and came straight home.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.

Harness mules and oxen, but give a horse a chance to run.

I drove from L.A. to the bottom of Florida on Vespas, and I drove cross country multiple times in a car. I've done a lot of road tripping.

I had a free-range childhood. We lived in town but with a cow, chooks, bees, and multiple veggie gardens so we could live self-sufficiently.

Passionate dissent from the will of the multitude should be respected, not derided.

I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean myself off being dependent. It was a very important time for me to be able to create my own individual, independent life; just as a way of growing up.

My father, he left the family when I was 13, so mum looked after us.

Even me mum can't tell me what to do.

I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.

My mum says that I was born 45, and I do remember at six thinking that I should be earning my own living.

I feel like a semi-single mum.

My poor mum had a lot of problems with me around that time. I was young but I'd been working for years, so if she asked me to clean my room I'd say, 'You can't tell me what to do after I've worked a 12-hour day.' It gave me a power that no one that age should have.

I'm not an interior designer - I'm a normal working mum who wants her house to look good and doesn't need a man to do it for her.

I grew up in Queensland, and my dad was a tradesman and my mum an insurance agent, both self-employed.