Quotes About Independence

You have to learn to fight for things, to bear the burden and have a life which does not in any way correspond to other peoples' lives.

I'm 69 kilos; I don't have a burden on my back.

I don't want to be a burden to anyone.

I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.

I trust the individual over the bureaucracy.

Stand-up is no bureaucracy. No one can tell me what to do or not to do.

Bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., shouldn't know how to better educate my kids than I do.

I was young so when I had that job at Burger King, I was still in high school and I just needed to help out my mom. And help myself because I needed to buy some of my clothes. I did that for about three years and I had became a shift manager working at Burger King, doing my thing. I was young and excited to make my own money.

I think when the people in Burma stop thinking about whether or not they're free, it'll mean that they're free.

I'd really like to get on a Greyhound bus and go backpacking across America.

Mum used to have my sister to look after, so I had to make my own way to training. I would get a bus to town and another one to Netherton. It would take about an hour.

The Drifter was this guy where I'd put a guitar on my shoulder and walk from town to town, find my way however I can, whether it's hitchhiking, on a bus, walking, whatever I've gotta do.

Growing up in the '70s, if you were a girl or woman, a man could tell you what to do - if you were sitting on the bus: 'Get up,' 'Move,' whatever. You did what you were told.

I enjoy doing businesses without anyone's help.

My dad wanted me to be a businessman, but I felt that wasn't for me.

I'm a businessman, a company man, but I'm no 'yes' man.

I've always been a businesswoman.

I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire.

I'm a businesswoman.

Stand up for yourself and fight for your right to be the artist that you want to be. There's plenty of pressure from outside; people tell you how to dress and how to sing or what to sing, but I always felt like if I'm going to fail or succeed, I want to do it on my own terms.

Free market never succeeded without free men and free society.

I can't gain anything off of anyone else not succeeding.

When you're invested in your own business, you're going to run it better. When people are financially responsible for whether their store succeeds, they're going to have that kind of entrepreneurial spirit that's harder to get if headquarters is running things.

She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.