Quotes About Independence

I don't really use the Internet or the newspapers to find out about people.

I don't think I constantly have to be on a promotional spree or be seen in the newspapers every day or even be part of social parties and film gangs. I'm having my own set of journey, and I am happy with it because I don't want to be like everybody.

It was my mother's dream to have a few houses next door to each other, where they could live in one, and my brother and I could live in the others, where we are close but also had independence.

It's nice to finally be my own person.

It's very nice to be able to write something you don't have to get four other people to agree with before it can become authoritative.

The nice girl meets a guy and acts like she joined a cult. In the beginning, a guy might ask her what she likes. The nice girl makes the mistake of shrugging her shoulders and saying: 'I like anything you like.'

The nice thing about working with BOOM! on 'Irredeemable' and 'Incorruptible,' man, was they let me have my head. No one said boo about anything.

The nice thing about building up your own studio is if Hollywood decides to hate faith-based films, it doesn't matter to us. We have an audience and continue to serve that audience.

What other people think of me isn't any of my business but it's nice when people say nice things.

That's one of the nice things. I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich. So if I need $600 million, I can put $600 million myself. That's a huge advantage. I must tell you, that's a huge advantage over the other candidates.

There's so many nice things about being single; you have yourself really present with you like 100 percent.

Back in high school, I went on dates, but I was too focused on my career. My parents were like, 'It's nice to have a boyfriend, but it's even nicer to own your house when you're 21.'

I never wanted to do anything else, really. I left home at an early age trying to find my voice, my niche in music.

I chose taking the hard road and creating my own niche and getting my own fan base.

My father used to be away for months at a time, and he'd never leave any money for food, so my brother and I had to go out and nick it.

I did think that it'd be truly cool to be a foreign correspondent, and it was. There is a degree of freedom - and the right to roam the earth on somebody else's nickel.

While the majority of my childhood memories are beautiful, I also have experienced the challenges that Nigeria has faced since independence.

I'd always been interested in Nigeria's past.

I am one year older than Nigeria at 51. In a human life, 51 might be old. But it is very young for a nation. By that, I mean a Nigeria conscious of itself as a nation.

When I go out, I'm not going out to find a man; I'm going out to dance the night away with my best friends.

Algeria keeps me awake at night. What about you?

As a child, I lived in Germany at the Ramstein air force base, where my dad sang at a nightclub in Kaiserslautern. My parents couldn't afford a babysitter, so when I was, like, ten or 11, I would go with them to the bar until two in the morning.

My dad worked nights mostly and while we were growing up, and my mother also worked, so there were times where, when it was just the two of us at home, and, you know, they gave us a pretty long leash, actually.

I cannot see myself sitting at a desk from nine to five!