Quotes About Independence

Will was now all man. And all cowboy.

Does not the American Declaration of Independence talk of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness? If a yogi had written that, he would have said, Life, Happiness, and the Pursuit of Liberty. Sometimes happiness may bring stagnation, but if freedom comes from disciplined happiness, there is the possibility of true liberation.

When it comes to girls, you make your own invitations.

Please, I'm a politician's wife. I have a set of my own.

You gotta Stand for Something, Even If U Stand Alone

Seek the good of other men, but be not in bondage to their faces or fancies; for that is but facility, or softness; which taketh an honest mind prisoner.

I am a rank individualist.

I had a beautiful childhood and a lovely childhood. I just didn't like being a child. I didn't like the rank injustice of not being listened to. I didn't like the lack of autonomy.

It was, 'If you don't do 'The Show Goes On,' your album's not coming out.' I had nothing to do with that record - nothing. I was literally told how I should rap on it. But I'm a bastard, 'cos I'll turn around and put it back in your face.

I really only make my own beats when I feel like I can't wait on somebody, or it's taking too long to get a nice beat to rap on.

I wanted to rap, but I needed beats. I couldn't buy any, so I just made my own.

I'm always trying to do every part myself, you know what I mean? I'm trying to sing, rap, whatever. I'm trying to do it all.

But I feel like I developed my own love for hip-hop and rap music by myself. Just growing up and hearing new things. As you grow up, you begin to listen to new music that this kid is listening to, then you begin to like your own music, and start discovering it yourself.

No city owns me, you know what I'm saying? I'm from New York, but no city owns me. Nobody can bottle up my sound and box me in. Yes, I am a rapper, but am I a New York rapper? No. I am from New York, I love New York to death, but I will not conform myself to one place, no.

I think most people don't know that I really write everything myself. No help. There's nobody in the studio except for me and the engineer. A lot of people don't think I'm a singer. They think I'm a rapper.

I don't want to be a small-time, independent, successful rapper.

Although I had the label of being the 'pretty girl rapper with a lot of followers,' I just broke the rules.

Things go bad after a divorce and often stay that way. It is rare for the parties to return placidly to a time before they met. A bitterness lingers on. Those who call this our Independence Day, fantasising of returning to a never-never time before they married, when they were free, easy, single, and master of their fate, are delusional.

I haven't left modeling completely; I just took a step out, and I now have the rare luxury of picking and choosing how to spend my days.

I find the Aussies are great and just let you be. The odd time, somebody has something smart to say, but it's very rare.

I was one of the rare guys who never wanted to sign a contract.

I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.

I create offbeat advice; I don't follow it. I rarely take third-party advice on my investments.

I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.