Quotes About Independence

India was formed on the idea 'Let's get the British out.'

I've grown into a woman and formed my own opinions about the world around me.

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

I grew up in a house of forthright women.

I have actually been very fortunate to be able to make films on my own credit card without having huge funders behind me dictating how the story should be told.

Fortunately, I've never had a job.

For me fortunately, my mother was my backbone. She was an independent and fierce woman, and she made sure I am too. She wanted me to be a brave person.

Once you finish a book, you let it go out into the world to seek its fortune.

Foster care was a big part of my life.

I believe in myself and the justice I've fought for all my life.

I try to search for roles where the character is not dependent on how she looks, but it is hard because I didn't know anyone in this industry, so I started as an extra and fought.

I'm in control of my musical career, which means more than awards and record sales. And that freedom is exactly what my dad fought for, too.

I ended up moving downtown with these three dudes that I didn't really know. I came into the house, and I didn't realize how things worked. From, like, 15-18, I was just fighting them. I fought, like, every day, and these were, like, older dudes. It was every man for himself.

Is democracy about living in fear? Is that what our forefathers fought the British for?

I never found anyone who could look after me as well as I could look after myself.

When you're in a single-parent home, they try to give you a good foundation, but by the time you're 4 or 5 years old, from that point on you're pretty much on your own.

There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.

Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.

The founding fathers of the U.S. were right when they erected that wall between church and state.

Our Founding Fathers would be proud of all that America has achieved, and will continue to achieve, in the coming years.

The world can only be free when men are content in themselves and each draws from his own fountain.

Sex does not exist for me at all. I haven't had a boyfriend for a long time. There were only three or four in my life up until now anyway.

It's depressing and scary, but he needs to know the world around him because he's fourteen now and in two years he's going to drive. He needs to know what goes on out in the world. I'm not going to always be there.

Fox has always allowed us to be ourselves. They've never told us what we can say, what to say, what not to say.