Quotes About Independence

One of the main reasons why it didn't work out for me and Aftermath is because I felt my music should sound one way, and they felt it should sound another. But, I learned a lot from watching Dre, and when I left California, I knew it was time for me to get my own label.

The reality about being economically dependent on someone else usually doesn't work out for women in the end. It's about being an adult and being responsible for your life. Most women have to work, so let's just get on with it.

I hope my books empower kids, and that they learn how to work out their problems themselves.

I've had to work by myself at combines before and forced myself to work out alone all the way back to high school. You have to be self-motivated.

Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.

My life hasn't been conventional and it hasn't been linear. I've had to make it up as I've gone along, which has taught me a lot. If you don't accept the obvious options that are laid out for you, it's up to you to work out where you're going and to create your own specific rules and goals.

I tell my clients to feel powerful - you and only you own your power. You are the one who can make yourself eat right, work out and not touch the biscuits.

Things that I do tend not to work out commercially.

I'm like thousands of women in South Africa who lost their men to cities and prisons... I stand defiant, tall and strong.

Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day.

Thousands of present day students, like many of our Founding Fathers, are being taught at home.

The TaskRabbit community provides thousands of individuals access to the kind of economy that puts them in charge of their own lives and income. TaskRabbit offers a new model of work, one that makes it possible for people to set their own schedules, establish their own rates, and use their talents and skills to earn a living on their own terms.

I love the fact that I can make a podcast in my house and tens of thousands of people will hear it. I also like that it's gotten rid of a lot of gatekeepers.

The thread of culture that runs through the entire history of punk is also a dedication to challenging the authoritarian.

The common thread in all my projects is 'girls being awesome.' Can we make that a genre?

The old model for India was to be self-sufficient. It was the ideal India became independent with, that you spin your own thread, make your own clothes.

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

When you can analyze situations and figure out what's best for you, based on you and not some preconceived notion of what society expects, then nothing is a threat.

I don't feel we need to be independent for me to feel confident in my Scottish identity. I think Scotland is pretty comfortable in its identity. We won't need independence to preserve it... if we don't become independent, it won't disappear; it isn't under existential threat.

I think to leave Europe would be a threat on the one hand to our economic security and on the other our national security.

There is a kind of woman who is economically powerful, professionally powerful, who threatens a white male grip on power that has a long historic precedent in the country. Independent women living outside of marriage threaten all kinds of things about the way power is supposed to work.

Here's the truth: Keystone XL won't make America energy-independent. It will threaten our land and livelihoods to pump Canadian tar sands' heavy crude through America and out to foreign countries, like China.

The message to China from Congress has to be clear, there will be consequences for Beijing if they threaten Taiwan's independence.

You have to realize that people are always going to be confused or sometimes threatened by someone who has the confidence to do something different.