Quotes About Independence

You can't make someone be your best friend.

The best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period.

The best way that I can give my best advice is not to be encumbered with any job with any administration.

I do my best work alone. I travel alone a lot.

I try not to think about writers who came before me when I'm writing myself. If I did, given the abundance of literary talent Scotland - and Edinburgh in particular - has bestowed upon the world, I wouldn't be able to get as much as a sentence written.

Learn to bet on yourself and have confidence in your own decisions. No one knows your business better than you.

I'm just going to bet on myself. I've been doing that my whole life.

Everywhere I've been I've bet on myself.

We can do a much better job free of protectionist Europeans.

You would be better off in exile than priding yourself on be like everyone else.

You are so much better off on your own than with the wrong person.

I love sensual women like Beyonce who are very empowering and sexy at the same time, but if it's not what you want to do then you have to say no.

The media is biased against me because I'm a self-made woman.

If I can bicycle, I bicycle.

I love a bicycle, and I haven't been without at least one since I was three years old.

Americans, for their part, must accept that a strong Europe will not be content to simply do America's bidding.

There was nothing to aspire to, no one to honor. Sojourner Truth wasn't a big enough role model for me. I couldn't go around abolishing slavery.

I'm not a big family person. I'm more of a loner.

I'm not a big fan of people telling each other what to do, I'll say that.

I'm not a big fan of any team; I'm a fan of players.

I think I have enough of a sense to know what works for me and what doesn't, without going into some big thing and analyzing what I do. I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.

After secondary school, the big thing to do was apply for uni in England or Scotland and then just stay there.

The biggest challenge is the fight you have on your own.

Nobody was willing to lend their bike or teach me to ride. Bike riding is very addictive and nobody wants to part with their bike for someone else.