Quotes About Independence

Growing up a career cop, I was always taught, 'Stay out of politics.' I didn't have any particular allegiance to any particular party.

'Cop Car' was made with all of my friends. I wrote it with my best friend.

At the end of the day, you can't do a copy of somebody.

I had my own mind made up in that I was going to do my own thing. I wasn't going to copy from this guy or that guy.

I'd rather do my own performance than copy someone else's.

I don't want to be a copy of anyone else.

I am too big to copy anyone.

Obviously, don't copy everything we do.

I want to go to every corner of the Earth where women are and make sure that every single woman on this planet knows that you should make the first move, it's OK to make the first move. They are equal, and they should be empowered.

In some respects I'm quite easily led, so I have to make sure I've got my own space, and that I feel comfortable in my working environment. It's very important for me to work with the right collaborators, as I can easily get led into a corner where I'm not comfortable.

'No one sits Baby in a corner,' one of the best lines in movie history.

As an independent artist, there can be nothing better than the fact that your song will be played and heard in different corners of the world.

I avoid banks and I've never been in any sort of corporate environment at all.

I never had a job. I never saw myself working for corporate business.

Being a candidate who doesn't take corporate PAC money forced me to be accountable to the people I serve and to meet them where they are.

I used the aspects of being a woman to my advantage, but I worked for myself, not a big corporation, so I was lucky to have the freedom to behave however I liked.

Entrepreneurs should never work with big corporations.

Our mom was a super strident, capable, and strong individual. I think because she was a military wife in the Marine Corps, she had to push back the things that she believed, and she had to really scrape and fight to have her space.

I won't think about what people will say, even when I am actually seeing someone. Somebody will say something, then someone else will contradict it. I can't keep chasing all of them and try and correct everyone.

Why on Earth would the United States ever want to be more like Europe? Correct me if I'm wrong, but we left, did we not? Not only did we leave that older, lesser world behind, but we left skid-marks along the way with an entire continent eating our proverbial dust.

Nothing costs more than the loss of freedom.

Once we leave the E.U., we will be able to slash the £600 million of costs of Brussels bureaucracy that hold back our businesses.

I don't want to sit until I'm 90 with people running around after me. I'm not one for sitting on the couch.

I never ask anyone else's opinion. They don't count.