Quotes About Independence

Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

The 9th grade was the best three years of my life. I was benching 85 lbs, drug free!

When I look back, it was a strange period in my life, looking at my childhood and then my teenage years and forming Slayer when I was still 17, not out of high school.

I don't want to be a full-time member of Pink Floyd all my life.

What people think of you is none of your business.

If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own.

If that person doesn't want to be in your life, just let him or her leave.

Don't you worry about a thing, my darling. You live your life.

Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.

I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be.

I have had a very singular kind of life since I started working so young, so I am very used to traveling, working, taking time for myself.

I do not believe, even remotely, that you have to have a partner in your life in order to be whole, in order to be complete, in order to be fulfilled. You just don't have to.

In an unmoored life like mine, sleep and hunger and work arrange themselves to suit themselves, without consulting me.

Leaving my family behind was very scary. I had to grow up quick. But being so young and paying in this league [the WNBA], I'm glad I did it because it's been the best experience in my life.

Don't be afraid of anyone. Imagine your life if you're not afraid of anyone.

You can't go down anybody else's [road]. It's your dream; it's your life. You don't have to be told by other people what to make of yourself. You decide.

The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.

You are the only one who can make it happen for you. Others can support and encourage you, but you have to find the energy within in order to step into the center of your own life and take charge.

I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian.

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

I say if it's going to be done, let's do it. Let's not put it in the hands of fate. Let's not put it in the hands of someone who doesn't know me. I know me best. Then take a breath and go ahead.

A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.

My version of Superman is essentially of a guy who has spent his whole life alone.

Make yourself your role model, because people who do not have qualities depend on the qualities of others to shape their own qualities.