Quotes About Independence

What you have to remember about Belarus is that it's a small state - it has a population of less than 10m people - and like many small states, it has to be very careful about its relationships.

I'm anti-big power. I don't know if that's populist or not.

I started cutting hair when I was about 16. Everyone in the neighborhood would come by, and I'd come out on the porch and sit and cut. I'd charge $3 a head. Every time I earned some money, I'd give it to my mom.

When you cook, you get to shop. You get to vote if you want the pastured raised pork or the organic grain. You can get to help produce your agricultural system, and you give that up when you outsource your cooking. You become dependent on what's offered - and that's a shame.

We're really lucky because we have a portable studio, which enables us to work wherever we like. There is some extra work involved in setting everything up, but you can find a lot of magic and inspiration in being free to go somewhere completely different.

We should work to de-link health insurance from employment so if you lose your job, your health insurance goes with you and it is personal, portable and affordable.

For me, I've always wanted to portray roles that are empowering. Also, being empowering doesn't necessarily mean being strong all the time.

He is absolutely on his own, and we never interfere in any of his decisions. When Ranbir joined the industry, he told his mother that he wanted to portray characters which a boy of his age would do in real life.

When I started off, nobody held my hand and told me what I should do and how I should portray myself as an actor.

We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We're not free - if we were, we'd allow people their freedom.

I really like the way 'Bond' girls are portrayed on screen.

I take great pride in portraying a strong female character who is independent and can take care of herself. I don't think we get to see that enough in television.

At independent shows the crowd are very involved and it's about interacting with the live audience. With WWE that's less important and it's more about portraying your character and getting it across to as many people as possible.

In Portugal the coach would sit on the bench and not say a word. We'd just play. It was a matter of us making mistakes and learning from them by ourselves. You understand the game a lot better that way.

Mostly, I'm in the very enviable position that no one dictates what I do.

I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly.

I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.

I'm not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.

People without children do have the freedom to do things that caring parents with dependent kids can't - to work long hours, to travel frequently, to relocate, and to do all these things on short notice if necessary. In return, they can achieve positions that devoted parents can't.

I'd rather be by myself, really, than have, like, a million posse around me.

I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.

I became an actor in that important drama with an inflexible resolution to persevere through the last scene, when we might be permitted and acknowledged to enjoy what we had so nobly declared we would possess, or lose with our lives - Freedom and Independence!

I don't believe that if you love somebody you have to possess him, live with him or marry him.

I hate jealousy, I hate possessiveness. I'm nobody's possession.