Quotes About Independence

She put a higher value on independence than an asthmatic put on oxygen.' Tzader

I can't go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.

There's just a feeling you get from certain things you do in life that just kind of feel pure and independent of what's actually, physically, going on.

I have been on my own all my life except during those touring days.

If you just kind of live a regular life and make good 'Hollywood' money, you have a certain freedom.

I wasn't born with a tie or with Mark Shields stapled to my left hip. I have another life.

Your life is inescapable. Unless you decide to escape it.

I spent a lot of my life schlepping around New York with people not doing things for me.

THE GREATEST RISK IN LIFE IS TO WAIT FOR AND DEPEND UPON OTHERS FOR YOUR OWN SECURITY.

I am a traveler. I am a nomad. I rarely sleep in the same bed more than three or four nights. And I know hotel life better than anyone.

I don't have a publicist, I don't go to events, I don't do magazines, and it's just not my life.

I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

I claimed myself and remade my life.

I don't care about a social life.

I'm intensely anxious to preserve the freedom that gives you the right to think and to act and to talk as you please. That I think is essential to happiness and the life of the people.

From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.

I had no monarch in my life, and cannot rule myself; and when I try to organize, my little force explodes and leaves me bare and charred.

My mom said, 'Don't get married. You're too young. Go out there and experience what life has to offer.' And I did.

You get to the point in life where you realize you have to roll up your sleeves, deal with the consequences of what happens, and carry your own weight.

As a model, it's a gypsy kind of life: living in hotels, working all the time, ordering room service instead of cooking for yourself. There's absolutely no nest-building.

As a model, it's a gypsy kind of life: living in hotels, working all the time and ordering room service instead of cooking for yourself. There's absolutely no nest-building.

Every generation proclaims that each must lead his own life, but seldom grants the subsequent generation the right to lead theirs.

I have never bought myself a computer or a phone, but guys in my life have bought them for me, for whatever reason. So now I have them.

I want to be free Michael, just for once in my whole life I want to be free" "You are free. You just don't know it yet