Quotes About Independence

I feel like there are so few girls in New York like that anymore, who are not focused on getting a man with money.

To think twice in every matter and follow the lead of others is no way to make money.

I just had it with the corporate money, money, money label thing.

It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.

Money bought freedom; without it one could never be free.

I'm on my own, luckily doing well, but like I said, we don't make a ridiculous amount of money and I have to be disciplined with what I do with it.

I made my new album 'Colour Me Free!' in a week with my own money.

I have a father who came from nothing and conquered the world. The last thing I'm going to do is sit here and spend his money and try to look pretty. That's not interesting to me at all.

If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.

Put your money in your head, that way no one can take it from you.

For me, if I had all the money in the world, and I could finance my own films, I would do whatever.

When I was in college, I lost my scholarship one year. I had enough money for tuition, but not room and board. So I camped in the hills.

You can become much more independent, much more courageous with a bank account. And also, much more independent and self-reliant when you know you have money behind you.

One should, I think, always give children money, for they will spend it for themselves far more profitably than we can ever spend it for them.

I made a conscious decision to earn enough to be able to choose my husband rather than not have a career and marry someone who would have to earn enough for us both to live on.

I don't feel like taking anybody's money.

I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do.

Independent bread gives independent morals: - while pecuniary dependence makes moral subserviency; - So get money - get wealth

I always have to presume that each movie is my last movie because I never know if I'll get money again.

You have to move from just working for money to a world where money works for you.

Great pressure is put on kids who don't have dads to get out and make money, and make life easier for everybody. It was always, 'Hurry up, grow up, make money, there's no man to do it for us.'

The first time I was given money to shop for myself, I was 13 and staying with my godmother in New York. I went to Clinique and bought the three-step acne programme and felt so grown-up.

Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity.

I've had no money, absolutely, from my family. They paid for a good education - or schools that purported to be a good education - but, um, not a dime.