Quotes About Independence

If I want to run around a field when I'm 70, I would like to have that option.

I don't want everyone to like me, and I don't choose who likes me. You have to give them the choice, give them the option.

There can be problems with extended families, and it can get a little close for comfort. But for the younger generations, it's clear that this option is becoming almost as appealing as living alone.

My parents gave me the easy option that if you're going to go your way, that's the highway. You can expect no funds and no support, which I think was legitimate; that was a fair option.

The attitude of, 'I will never self-publish,' coming from any author, indicates that they have never been in a position where it is their only option.

Maybe Americans feel they don't need the rest of the world anymore, and they wish it would go away. We don't have that option.

I haven't been in a position to be a free agent or know what that is like and then to have the chance to go where you want to go. That's always been - I feel, with players, they want that option.

My first experience out of my country was Ecuador. That was a very good option for me. To know how you can develop your coaching style or your personality being away and being alone, that is not easy.

My parents are hard nuts. Especially my Dad. He never wanted me to struggle and he always wanted me to fight my own battles. He would never give me the easy option or the easy route.

Show people a positive path that enables them to make progress on their own terms. Give them options and alternatives that empower them.

At 15 I had moved out of my parents' place, and my options were looking pretty narrow. But I had this acting thing and I just wanted to be able to keep going because it was really good. That was all I wanted.

As a freelancer, as a writer, and running my company, people have always tried to negotiate me down. Some might think that I might accept their offers because they think I don't have many options. The truth is, I always have options available to me.

If you want to be a powerful woman, you need money. It gives you options and freedom so you don't have to think about money all the time.

I'm going to give it my all, but I'm also going to know my worth, know that I have options, and that's the best feeling in the world.

Listen, ladies and gentlemen. America is still a country of choices and options. And I have a lot of them.

So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.

I played in orchestras all through high school and taught myself how to play guitar.

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

I never liked being ordered around - which, of course, was an overreaction. I eventually found out that I didn't mind being ordered around at all when it was by someone who knew what he was doing.

I have an issue with others ordering for me, and I spend far too long haranguing people that my choices are the best. I apologize for the amount of conversations I have ruined with this attitude.

If I'm on the phone, ordering something, people often tell me to have my mother come to the phone. They don't believe I'm a grown-up.

You'll be glad to know that I'm not taking my marching orders from the Democrats.

I think for me, wearing the helmet and being part of the Stormtroopers felt so strange. Like, so this is what it feels like to just be one of the many. And to look the same, and to have to do the same thing. To be under the same orders. This is what it feels like.

Twyla Tharp is not going to take orders from anyone, not even Mozart!