Quotes About Independence

To be honest, I came up with the Carmella character completely on my own.

I don't really want followers, to be honest; that's what Twitter is for. I want people who can make their own decisions and look after their own departments.

Why do I manage myself? I don't trust anyone else to do it, to be honest.

I don't care what other people think about me to be honest with you.

Like most people, I wanted and still want to live by my own rules.

I am so lucky to have really good parents. They didn't hesitate to let us go to L.A. They didn't hesitate, because they knew that they raised their kids the right way: to be able to live by themselves and not get caught up by L.A.

It is tough to live by myself.

No, we don't own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

I can't tell people to love mountains. They have to find their own way.

I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.

I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.

But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere.

Freedom from menial work should be a rallying cry, not a cudgel to be used against the Left. How much liberty is there in having to do something you hate in order to survive?

Independence feels like a luxury, where the reality is that it's hard to survive financially for so many people out there.

When I was at Hinckley I was on £200 a week. I was flying around getting myself into trouble here and there. It was a learning curve, relying on money that wasn't coming and having to survive.

I've always been able to survive by writing, though.

I was looking for a husband, but meanwhile to survive, I had to work.

I always studied because I knew I had to. I needed to survive and take care of my mother.

When you don't educate the people, you're crippling them. You are, you're not giving them ways to survive.

I trust myself. You need that to survive.

When I think about my teenage years, when my parents broke up, and feeling alone and being out of control and having to survive... And then other times when you've had to find your own way... that's always been a dominant theme in what I've done.

I try to put myself in others' shoes: How does any country give up any sovereignty and expect to survive as a government? I don't think that any Philippine president, or any leader for that matter, can afford to give up any portion of territorial sovereignty. That would be political suicide.

I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.

When Mahesh is not around for weeks together, I have to take care of everything - kids, home. But the fact that I am able to survive and not feel alone is very challenging. It's about a healthy companionship and being true to each other.