Quotes About Independence

I customise and build motorbikes and I can fix them myself.

I like to come and go as I please which means I'm not anxious to dash back from the studio to fix dinner for a man.

If the national government doesn't fix your problem, you've got a problem. You've got to fix it yourself. That's just part of the American way.

I started to learn some common sense. Even just sort of day-to-day things. I started to cook a little bit more and try to learn to fix things around the house. If something breaks down, rather than call a guy, there's got to be more I can do.

I've always been an outsider. I think, being in the White House press corps, it's difficult to do the sort of journalism that I would want to do.

Folks here in South Carolina want someone with a backbone, with a spine. Someone who's going to stand up for them and their families, regardless of who's in the White House.

In general, if I owned a sports team, no matter what team it was, and someone asked me, 'Hey, you won the championship. Would you go to the White House?' I'd say, hey, guys, you won the championship. You decide what you want to do.

The revolution of Saint Domingo was taking its course. I saw that the whites could not endure, because they were divided and because they were overpowered by numbers; I congratulated myself that I was a black man.

I love a man with a great sense of humor and who is intelligent - a man who has a great smile. He has to make me laugh. I like a man who is very ambitious and driven and who has a good heart and makes me feel safe. I like a man who is very strong and independent and confident - that is very sexy - but at the same time, he's very kind to people.

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself.

I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.

There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for it.

The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it.

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures such as family, passionate relationships, dealing with 'who am I?' - those complications when one is searching for one's self.

Who am I to tell people what to do with their own careers and how they're doing?

I don't give a damn what people say about me. I like me the way I am, and who cares what other people say?

Like children, adolescents need a framework. Otherwise they can't cope. When someone has unlimited freedom, it means there's nobody who cares what they're doing.

Just do what you want to do, and who cares what people think. That's always been my thing.

There's nobody who cares more about you than you, and there's nobody better equipped to take care of you than you.