Quotes About Independence

I grew up in St Louis, just with my mom.

Ballet became this escape for me. I feel like I was on my own a lot. I was searching for stability, so I was going off on my own and imagining what I thought stability was. Ballet became a way for me to cope.

When you are a free agent like I was, it definitely makes a big difference when you know there's stability at the quarterback position.

I ended up getting kicked out of my house when I was 16, and I went off to college. When they actually saw that I was getting some kind of stability as far as having a career in this business is when they started coming around.

Liberals don't believe in the ultimate concept of self-reliance, which is why they look to the government for stability.

There's a stability in being a side person that can be kind of dangerous if you also want to be an artist on your own.

Acting never was about the money for me... Maybe in 10 years, I'll be able to appreciate the fact that I am financially stable and independent and I don't have to make bad choices. I can be very picky.

By the time I'm 25, I want to be financially stable.

An independent Brooklyn probably would have built a new stadium for the Dodgers, so today there might be not just baseball but also the only football team on this side of the Hudson.

Once you have set the goal, give your staff the space to get there. If you micromanage, you will be able to do very little.

I find it exhausting to administer a magazine without an office or paid staff.

I am a tumbleweed. I don't have a company. I don't have a staff. I don't own anything - I've never owned a car or an apartment.

In college, the coaching staff does more work with you individually. But at the next level, you have to do it all by yourself.

You're on your own in college, but you get sheltered a little bit more with the coaching staff and everything.

My staff are pretty protective, it drives me nuts. I like to just do my own thing, that's pretty well it.

I don't want to take the escalators. Give me the stairs that have the dips and the two old ladies that are blocking it and they've got an attitude, and they don't want you to go past them.

I don't do stairs. And I don't do groups.

You want to stake your own claim. You don't want to be called a copycat.

This girl at 17 really led an army, this girl at 19 really burned at the stake by her own choice. And you sit there and you want to figure out why did she make these choices? How did she live such a life?

When 'Siruthai' became a hit, there was suddenly a lot at stake. A lot of people were telling me what to do and what not to. But at some point, you realise that's not the way to go. Good or bad, you need to be making your own choices.

So many entrepreneurs view their companies as their babies. They micromanage, and they stall.

I personally couldn't care less who's in the stall next to me as long as I don't have to see what you're doing in there.

I was on food stamps until I was 18 and became an adult.

I am ready and prepared to work with the President, but I will not be a rubber stamp for any president.