Quotes About Independence

I don't want people to think of me as sexy.

I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.

Some girls are taught to be sexy.

As a female actress, I didn't feel the need to be sexy or beautiful.

I've never felt like I was living in anyone's shadow. My life was what it was.

I always used the free room that the G.D.R. allowed me... There was no shadow over my childhood.

We shall liberate our country.

When did it something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?

If you can't keep yourself in shape on your own without being told to, that's a shame.

I never shared a room growing up because I was the only girl.

I've never been comfortable with sharing anything: I was a single child.

At the end of the day, I earn a living by creating music and not sharing it with anyone because I am my own master. I know my worth.

I don't like being back in the sheds, I prefer being out in the middle and just doing my thing.

I'm the black sheep.

No president is well-served by groupthink or by everybody singing from the same sheet of music they think he's on.

After a sheltered life, I went the other way. I wanted to prove how tough I was.

I was in this sheltered little environment where, basically, all my high school experience was in 'Life Goes On,' and everyone told me where to go, what to do, how to think - I never had to do anything for myself.

When we first started we felt something changing in terms of work, and we felt it was a global shift. People were taking control of their future, not just in terms of making money. They wanted to control their own destiny.

I sew my own shoes - I don't trust anyone else to sew the ribbons exactly how I like them.

Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.

Mostly I stay at home from the morning until 5 P.M., and I only go out for fittings and shoots because I work at home. I like to be alone.

I had a Saturday job in Barratts shoe shop at the age of 15.

I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like.

My mother actually does most of my shopping for me. I love fashion, but I don't really love shopping.