Quotes About Independence

Let your kids pick their punishments. Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around. It's easier, and we're usually right! But it rarely works.

I fly my own airplane, and I have since 1960. I rarely fly anywhere other than my own airplane.

I cycle, which is a healthy thing for an 80-year-old to do. I rarely go further than five miles, but in those five miles I can get to 80 percent of the places I want to go.

Absolutely, I don't believe in rules. As I tell my daughter when she is mischievous, 'Well-behaved women rarely make history.'

Quite often, people who build big businesses don't believe anyone else can run them, and you end up with an old rascal in their 70s and no one to take them on. I could name several - and I won't - who put themselves in that invidious position.

I'm really like a rat in the rap game. I just drop stuff when I feel like it.

I'm happy for people to rate and rank me as they want, but it will never come from my mind.

We sometimes let ourselves be rated too much by others - we put so much emphasis on a paycheck or what a magazine says.

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

I do love horses, but I'd rather be on motorcycles.

I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.

When I made 'Lil Boat,' my first mixtape, I didn't have a drop date, a due date. I didn't have critics rating on it; I was just making it. And then when I finished it, I dropped it at my own smoothness, at my own pace.

I think Rachel Maddow has done a brilliant job in becoming more and more independent. And I think she does a fantastic progressive show, and she did it by accruing power, by getting better and better ratings.

I am not interested in ratings by Freedom House or whatever.

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

I like to rattle cages.

You've got to not care about what people think. You learn that as an actor. If you get a bad review, will you be destroyed by it? Or will you think you're God's gift when you get a rave review?

'Dil Chahta Hai' was too raw. We only thought about the film. We never thought where the film was going to go. We wanted to make a film on our own terms.

I hate seeing people getting a raw deal and artists not being in control of what they are doing. It happens all the time.

Their humble dwellings were of their own rearing; it was they themselves who had broken in their little fields; from time immemorial, far beyond the reach of history, had they possessed their mountain holdings.

I have reached the conclusion that Hawaii does not need LNG in our future.

When I first came out, holidays were hard. I reached a point where I didn't go home anymore. I constructed my own, kind of like, family group around Christmas.

I just felt proud of being able to tell my mom that 'Ye reached out. He saw that I built on my own with a small team.

I've reached that enviable state in life in which I can do pretty much what I want.