Quotes About Independence

I always rode for myself.

I was my own role model.

For me, honestly, the term 'role model' means for someone to be imitated, and I don't feel like anyone is to be imitated.

I am no one's role model.

I didn't have a role model when I was younger.

For me as an individual, it's important that I have a career as a role model for my children, that I earn my own money, and I spend it prudently and imprudently.

I don't have a role model.

I never had a role model or something.

Being a strong female who can hold her own ground and say, 'Look, this is me, accept it or don't,' makes me a role model.

There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.

I wasn't allowed to leave Romania. That made me mad. You just want your freedom. You want your space. You want opportunity.

It wasn't easy to live with my mother under one roof.

I'm not capable of being in a group where I'm not the leader. I did it once earlier in my career with Legacy, and that was cool because I was young and green and a rookie in the industry, but now no more.

I'm not a big room service guy.

I don't think I could live with anybody. I had roommates, and it's not for me. I like my space!

I don't really have a team that I root for.

I've always rooted on kids that do what they want to do and are being who they want to be.

We still have slavery of all kinds - slavery of thought, slavery of ideas, slavery of cultureand I think 'Roots' exemplifies, in a very strong way, man's need to think for himself, feel for himself, do for himself.

I like to give my daughter some rope and let her make her own decisions.

I can't be a rose in any man's lapel.

You grow up rough, you think differently. You think you've got to protect yourself at all times. I didn't want any help. I thought I could do everything by myself, which you can't.

I came up different; I took a different route. I want to lead my own path.

I had a lot of respect for what my dad did and the success that he had. I wanted to give it a try. He never forced me in any way to go this route. It was my decision. He would push me to work harder at it but only because it was my decision to race. If there was ever a day when I didn't want to do it any more, he would be fine.

I wouldn't go down the route of having an assistant. I don't want to be like that. I want to be normal.