Quotes About Independence

As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them.

A lot of times, working in stand up, you're by yourself, and so you just have to rely on yourself only... but I like working in an ensemble.

I'm going to stand up for what I need to do, not what everybody else wants me to do.

It's a very big world with some very big characters. And, boy, do you have to be able to stand up for yourself when you walk into a working men's club and negotiate a loan.

We've got to stand up for ourselves. That is, draw some lines, make it clear that after awhile, we're not going to get bullied or pushed around, because I think there are some in China who want to push the United States around. They want to bully us.

We all have to stand up and fight alongside American women to make sure that they have the freedom to control their own futures.

As an only child, you've got to stand up for yourself.

My mother ran the household. In grade school, I came home crying one day. She said, 'What's wrong?' and I said, 'This kid said he was going to jump on me.' She grabbed me and slammed me on the floor. 'If you don't go out there and stand up for yourself, it's going to be me and you.' I didn't want that to happen.

You should always stand up for yourself.

You always have to stand up for yourself.

All I know is that it is important to stand up for ourselves, no matter how inconvenient the reality is.

Sometimes you have to stand up for yourself.

I'll always stand up for America's seniors so they can age with dignity.

For someone to stand up against the norm makes them very intriguing to me.

It seems that Gerard Houllier did not appreciate my personality. It bothers him to have someone around who could stand up to him.

I was always seen as defiant. And I did know that as a kid. It just wasn't something that was stamped out of me. I often had problems in school where I would stand up to teachers or I would believe that something they were saying was wrong.

We're a much different generation now, so I think us girls can stand up for ourselves.

I taught my boys it is easy to follow a crowd. Anybody can do that. It takes a man to stand up for your principles. You cut your own path in life. Chase after whatever your heart's desire is, and instead of following the crowd, let somebody else follow you. That takes a little guts.

I liked that improv and sketch comedy were collaborative, but you really depended on other people and a stage to perform. With stand-up comedy, I liked that you had no one else to blame and depend on.

In high school, I was obsessed with '60s and mod. It was about the look, and also about not being part of whatever the standard was.

As many have said before me, artists are creative people who can't be dragged into the politics of nations. I have always made a concerted effort to maintain this standard for myself.

It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body.

I believe that whenever I want to learn something I can learn it much better and faster by myself if I'm motivated to learn it as opposed to kind of doing it in more a standard, institutionalized way.

One of the things my service in Iraq did give me was this freedom from fear of failure or any kind of expectations that I had to take a standard path.