Quotes About Independence

At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don't let people give you that peer pressure.

But for me it's loads of pressure. Like, my mum is a strong independent woman, but obviously she relies on me a little bit. My little brother has his own job but he relies on me.

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

Do what you want to do, and don't feel pressure to do what other people want.

You don't need to bow down to peer pressure or be comparing yourself.

I don't care what other people say. The important pressure, you put on yourself. The pressure that others put on you? I ignore it.

I'm not someone who feels the pressure of someone else's expectations. That's a very young way to feel.

I just write songs and hope that they do well. I'm sure there is some pressure from someone at the label, but I'd rather keep away from it.

I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.

I know a lot of parents of kid actors I've worked with have pressured them into acting, but my parents are different. I'm really lucky to have them because they let me make my own decisions.

I'm enjoying it with Ireland, and I won't be pressured into playing for England.

If my son wants a boxing career, I won't stop him, but I definitely won't push him. It's bad for a kid to be pressured.

Too often, I have not been what I wanted to be; I've succumbed to pressures. Yes, I have. The things I've done that I liked, I've always done against advice.

Though Hillary Rodham married Bill Clinton 11 years after Camille Hanks married Bill Cosby, and after having earned her own law degree, the terms of her marriage were also shaped in their own way by a presumption of a husband's centrality and a wife's subsidiary nature.

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free.

Forty is the line of demarcation that says you're an adult now. You're an adult, so don't pretend you're a kid anymore.

If I don't belong because of what I think and because of my opinions, then so be it. What can one do about it? One can't bend over backwards or pretend to be someone else just to belong. And in any case, it doesn't work. Once you no longer belong, it's over.

I've always made music on my own, but I didn't think there was a platform for that, so I thought I had to pretend it was a band.

People ask what my influences are, and for me, it's not always obvious. One of my biggest inspirations was Chrissie Hynde from the Pretenders. That's based on how she just does whatever she wants to do, and I love her attitude about everything. It bleeds over into my way of thinking and comedy.

Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am.

The thing for me about Ayn Rand is that her philosophy is the only one applicable to the world today - in every sense. If you take her ideas, then take them farther in your own mind, you can find answers to pretty well everything on an individual basis.

I am looking for strong characters rather than being just a pretty girl. Actresses can do so much more than looking good.

I think it's great that you have inspirational female roles, that it's not just the pretty girl on the arm of a man.

I do love my country. I don't think I'm particularly a good American. I don't know what makes a good American. Other than somebody who - I like people who let other people alone. I think that's a pretty good American. And I keep my hands to myself. So I'm an OK American.