Quotes About Independence

Anyone who is secure about herself shouldn't be threatened by the ads I do.

No, I wasn't really suing my mother. I was just trying to get in control of my finances and my life. My stepfather has only wanted me around for my money, and he threatened to leave my mother if he didn't get the money anymore.

I need a man that's comfortable in his skin and not threatened by a woman with a big personality.

Here's the good thing about it: I don't have to depend on some jerk disc jockey whose wife doesn't like me, and has threatened him not to play my songs. That is the honest-to-God truth. That's it in a nutshell. The fans don't have to go through a disc jockey or a radio station that loves me, or that doesn't like me. They can download the music.

Democrats creating the expectation that judges should act as politicians in robes is a dangerous precedent to set, threatening the very independence of the judiciary.

There's something threatening about a woman who is not occupied with children... What sort of trouble will she make?

If the United States is to protect itself from the economic and the political threats created by this excessive dependence, we must reduce our reliance on foreign energy sources and on foreign oil as quickly and as efficiently as possible.

For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.

It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution.

I have three assistants, but there isn't a head assistant. All the important drawings I do myself. Every single character is also done by me.

These three movements were born spontaneously and independently of the initiative of a few French patriots who had a place in the old political groups and parties.

I ran away from three different boarding schools before joining a circus school, and eventually I became an actor. The only thing I learned at boarding school was never to send my child to one.

When you get into an airplane by yourself and take off, you find yourself in this lovely, three-dimensional world where you can go in any direction. There is no feeling any more exciting than that.

I moved to London when I was 19 and went to a three-year drama-and-conservatory training. I lived there for almost ten years.

I'm good at being on my own. As a kid, I was always in my room alone, so I have a high threshold for it. If I'm bored, I'll read. Hanging around doesn't go well with me.

I was an only child, and my mom threw me into some modeling classes to get me out of my shell.

The Indonesian nationalists, mainly Javanese, who threw the Dutch out - in 1949, after a four-year struggle - were keen to preserve their inheritance and emulated the coercion, deceit, and bribery of the colonial rulers.

It's the first film that I made where the director was not present under the camera, and it threw me.

I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio.

I saw my father deal with every headache the government threw his way - whether it had to do with the signs on the front of the building or the prices on the showroom floor. He knew he could do better, if government would just get out of the way - and stay out of the way. He was right.

When I first quit my day job, I was terrified. I called my editors and said I'm trying to make a go of this, and they threw every contract at me they could. And for two years, I had a book or an anthology out every month.

I threw my TV out years ago.

I am a theater girl, and a lot of theater girls dress however pleases them. I wear whatever looks good on me. I wear what I wear because I have been shopping at thrift stores since I was five.

Once you're on, nobody can say, 'Cut it.' You're out there on your own, and there's always that thrill of a real live audience.