Quotes About Independence

How does it feel being a woman's weakness? I mean a real woman. I mean a real weakness.

Be an individual, let out the self that hides away at the expense of others approval.

Whenever a young thing wants to be free minus serious thought, she gets pregnant and then gets married. Voilà!

My life. My choice. Live life only once. So to hell with the world

I just kind of went from being a standup, one-man band, to then kind of breezing back and working with other people. And now I'm just trying to be a legitimate guy who pays the rent, you know.

After I won Miss America, I called my dad, who had four kids in college, to say he no longer had to pay for Stanford.

I chose Stanford for Stanford and not for the coach. I was going to Stanford regardless.

The real question is, at the end of the day, do we want to run our country? Are we proud of who we are? Are we happy to be just a star on somebody else's flag, or do we want to be an independent nation?

You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.

I am a single mom of three girls, and I'm getting through that. If I can get through that, I can direct a whole season of television that I star in.

Yet there are film stars like Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra who never allowed the mafia to dictate terms to them. But starlets like Monica Bedi used the mafia connection to win stardom and is now paying heavily.

When you're staring at your phone to navigate and being led places, you do become less aware of your environment, and the journey becomes kind of automated. There is an aliveness that comes with having to puzzle out directions for yourself. And you have to ask other people for help, which creates opportunity for social connection.

I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don't know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don't think you need all that stuff.

If someone is going to permit me to make a publication that is politically and culturally progressive and not tell me to put their favorite movie stars on the cover, if I get to do what I want in an honest way - as I did in the beginning at 'Colors' - then I'm going to do it.

Kill Rock Stars allowed me to put out a real genuine rock 'n' roll record.

I always start from the stand that it is imperialism that needs us, not we who need the imperialists.

You know what this nation is? It's a disruptive start-up. It was a group of rich guys that got together and said, 'You know what? We're going to break away from the other countries and start our own country.'

I started off as a kid who didn't care what my education was.

I was 14 when I started modeling. At the end of that first day my mum said, If you want to do this, you're on your own because I'm not traipsing around London ever again like that. It's a nightmare.

I'm a piece of work, man. I will do what I want, at all times, always. Nobody's going to persuade me one way or another. I can't be persuaded. I take criticism, I listen, I analyze, but at the end of the day, I make the decisions. Because that's the way I started, and that's the way I'm going to finish.

I really started from grassroots, without a handout or anything.

I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By the time I was 11, I had read all the children's books in my local library, so I moved on to 'Jane Eyre.' What I loved about Jane Eyre was that she didn't rely on her looks but her character. She had a spirit nobody could break.

When I turned 16 and got my license, the Chevy Blazer was passed down from my sister, so it was very much a starter car.

We are starting a process of decolonization in Bolivia. All this is bringing about change and we will continue.