Quotes About Independence

When I was little, all I really wanted out of my life was to become Nancy Drew. I've always enjoyed fictional sleuths, especially Nancy.

I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.

I certainly didn't have a nanny.

We hear some people talk about the nanny state and, actually, we don't want to be telling people how to bring up their children, or how to be parents.

I like people who don't accept boundaries. Like Florence Nightingale. And Napoleon or Louis XIV, though I'm not sure how much I'd have liked to meet them. I admire people who aren't circumscribed by circumstance.

For America, 1812 became the war in which it had finally gained its independence. For Britain, 1812 became the skirmish it had contained, while winning the real war against its greatest nemesis, Napoleon.

The act of founding a company is its own act of narcissism: 'I alone can do this.'

You know, I'm a really individualistic person. I'm extremely narcissistic and egocentric, too. So I have one life, and I have to live it the way I want.

When I was growing up, there was still that narrative of 'you finish school, you go and get married, you become somebody's wife and you get kids and tend to them.' I think it is really important to reach for something.

The narrative needs to change. Asian-American actresses don't want to be the damsels in distress anymore. We don't want to be saved, especially by a white man.

I think what 'Four More Shots' wanted to do from the word go is to create a narrative where women have the agency. None of the characters are perfect. They have their flaws.

I really feel stateless, which is not bad, because I always felt a man without a country was not encumbered by narrow loyalties.

I'm not going to take anyone else's word for it, or NASA, or especially Elon Musk with SpaceX. I'm going to build my own rocket right here and I'm going to see it with my own eyes what shape this world we live on.

I definitely felt the desire to, like - I definitely knew there was an elsewhere. I definitely knew that, like, if I were going to be free, I needed to be away from, kind of, like, Nashville and kind of get out of the South and get out of the country.

I feel like what made 'Nasty' so fire was it was finally something that they couldn't take from me.

What's really important? That I'm an individual, I guess. I am an individual - a strong one, too. I'm Natalie Cole. I gotta be me.

No man shall have the right to fix the boundary to the march of a Nation.

Honoring our nation's heroes and their caregivers is a cause very important to me - especially on Independence Day.

I am mortal. I want the nation to get used to freedom before I die.

This is the 21st century, and you cannot hold a nation captive against their will.

The example that America knows how to govern itself is one of the compelling aspects of our national security.

Of course I have ambitions, even if I don't play for the national team.

I've known since I went to the national team when I was very young that I was a different bird.

I had to move out when I was 14 and live by myself in the capital of Croatia. That's when it got a little serious. From there, I played on the Croatian national team.