Quotes About Independence

It's not very exciting to go to work to just have your character's identity being defined by her relationship with her male counterparts.

My whole life is not defined by what Hollywood does.

I am not defined by somebody's comments or an article or somebody's angst about me or their anxiety about me or what is being said about me on social media.

How dull it is to have people defining you.

In the life of any country, the most defining moment is the creation of the country itself.

If Ripple as a company went away, XRP would continue to trade. To me, that's the definition of decentralization.

I didn't want to go get a job or get a degree in business or marketing, or whatever all my friends were getting degrees in.

My mother had a wall of degrees in our house, and she would walk me up to the wall and say, 'When you have this many degrees, you can tell me what to do.'

There ain't no way the state of Delaware is gonna tell me how to sign my own license!

I know what I want, and it's hard to delegate.

Believe me, I do not go to Delhi, I do not know anybody in Delhi.

I don't want to see my family all the time, and they're delighted, I'm sure, to be aware of that.

I'm a big boy now, and I have to deliver.

Any passionate actor, if he is spoon-fed, will deliver.

With independent music, I can do what I feel satisfied with, and not feel the pressure of what others expect me to deliver.

I'm there from conception to delivery of an album because I don't want anybody getting in the middle of my music and meddling with my work while I'm on the road.

I had this when I was 17 years old - a 1969 Oldsmobile Delta 88 with no backseat. I paid 150 bucks for it, I think, rode it for a good six months, and put four or five quarts of oil a week in it.

I don't mind demanding women.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

By demanding more from men and from marriage, it's single women who have perhaps played as large a part as anyone in saving marriage in America.

By the time I was 14, I had become self-motivated. Whatever raced inside me was more demanding than any pressure applied by parents or teachers.

Sometimes freedom demands a measure of sacrifice.

My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.

I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.