Quotes About Independence

Living in America means enjoying freedoms that people in many other countries cannot.

We don't depend on other countries to keep our armed services equipped.

Other countries have been founded by 'accidents of force.' America is a creation of thought.

Not like other countries, we will never ask anyone to fight for us.

It was funny being at high school and also grocery shopping and having a job. Other kids were going home to their parents, who were doing their laundry, and I was like, 'Wait, what?' I was super isolated. I was 16, alone in New York, and modelling.

At school, I was a lot more advanced compared to the other kids but I didn't like authority and was kicked out for fighting.

Growing up, I had a terrible pudding-bowl haircut. I used to cut it myself, and I'd sew my own clothing, too. I looked a little strange compared to the other kids. But the thing was, I felt I looked amazing, so what other people thought never bothered me.

The other kids wanted to play Destiny's Child, but I wanted Anita O'Day.

Not having a mum was my thing. It came with a sort of fame. Other kids couldn't get their head around that. But looking back now, I'm quite proud about how I managed myself. I didn't end up sniffing glue or running away. I just got on with things.

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

When I follow my own head, I am, in general, much more correct in my judgment than following the opinion of others.

I do not need to hear how I am judged by others. I know by myself if I can be satisfied or not with my work.

I have never been insecure, ever, about how I look, about what I want to do with myself. My mum told me to only ever do things for myself, not for others.

If you live the way others want you to, you are called a nice guy. If you live the way you want, you are called selfish.

Everybody enjoys when a woman is her own character in a movie or otherwise.

If people love what I do, that's fantastic. And there's always going to be people who don't, and if I focus on that, then it'll destroy me. I have to just worry about my own opinion and the opinions of the people I'm working with and people who are close to me. Otherwise, it'll drive me crazy.

I would say that nobody is going to work harder for your career than yourself - the one with the vision. No matter how many people you hire, nobody is going to get is as much as yourself does. So it's really important to be your own leader at all times and not hand it all off, otherwise the whole empire will fall apart.

We ought to have the courage of our convictions and confidence in our own ingenuity. After all, that's what America is all about. Either that, or learn Mandarin.

What I hated was doing what somebody in LA thought Jeff Foxworthy ought to do.

People ought to have more control over their lives.

I like cooking, but I think someone else ought to do the dishes.

I think, as a player, we have to work and fight for our dream, and this makes us grow up. We get old quickly - we leave our families to run for our dreams.

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

Anarchists believe we can run our lives without the government.