Quotes About Independence

One of the most rebellious things a woman can do is allow people to think she's mean.

Some people go through a rebellious phase, and they separate and understand that they're not who their family thinks they are.

My parents wouldn't let me listen to 'American Idiot.' So it felt very rebellious to go over to my friend's house after school and listen to it in secrecy.

By the time I graduated from high school, though, I was in a bit of a rebellious phase towards everything I had known growing up.

I was a little rebellious growing up.

Everything I do is rebellious. Sometimes even against myself.

When you are young and rebellious, you don't want to be in the house. You want to be on the block.

I do have a rebellious spirit.

I was born to two rebellious people and it is in my blood to speak my mind.

Basically the school system sets you up with what it wants to set you up with. They're really good at it. I think they're too good. Problem is, what they're doing is conditioning kids to merely accept the culture at hand. But the rebels won't accept it.

The Earth needs rebels!

Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with - I still do - but to me a rebel isn't so much someone who breaks the law as someone who goes against the odds.

We were the rebels of the music industry so we wanted to write a rebellious song.

We were anything but 'America's sweethearts.' On the inside we were total sassy rebels.

We've always been hardcore rebels.

I always had to mask my emotions. I could never show that I missed my mom or my dad, especially when they moved to America. My grandparents were tough. I was not allowed to receive letters that had not been read before. Everything was controlled - everything!

While it is important that black women begin to receive the accolades and assistance they are due from the Democratic Party, they cannot be expected to continue to save white people from the poor choices they make - based not on moral values but party affiliation.

Starting my business has been very hard work. I have received no help from any officials at all.

When advice is freely given, the receiver is free to use it as he or she sees fit.

It's a fairly recent thing but I've become very fond of making drinks myself.

I got told I needed a producer I don't know how many times - maybe 27 times, 30? Then I recently got told 'I'm so proud of you.' That was even more great to hear.

I recently had a few days off while shooting a movie in Budapest, so I took a cab from the set to the airport, looked at the departure board, and decided where I wanted to go right then and there. I spent four days in Rome and didn't tell anyone I was going.

Someone recently asked what I am most proud of. The thing I'm most proud of is that I'm in my 50s and I'm still a leading lady.

As recently as the 1970s, some Pashtun leaders in Afghanistan were pushing to create a new state, Pashtunistan, by joining with Pashtuns in Pakistan.