Heidi Klum Quotes

Very few artists are as independent as I am mentally, physically, spiritually and technically. I sit in my home studio and record things by myself. I don't need to get anybody's approval or validation.

Nothing was given to me, nothing was entrusted to me, nothing was assigned to me. Everything I have, I took by right.

I feel like a spoilt rapper. I get to pick and choose everything.

For many young women, the dream of independence and a home of their own is a tantalising goal, while a lifetime devoted solely to catering for another person's needs would be hard to countenance.

Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to develop any discipline.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to develop the emotional musculature that will allow them to show self-restraint.

To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.

My plan growing up was to leave home and try not to panic. I always knew that to strive to be self-sufficient was an important ambition.

The lesson that people can't give me what they don't have, and if there's anything I took from it, it was: okay, I don't really expect anyone to hand me anything. There's going to be me and the world.

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don't expect people to hand you a corn beef sandwich and wash your socks for you and unzip your fly for you.

Usually, I just do what I want, because I got it that way.

People shouldn't think that something is their birthright. They need to prove themselves.

I am my own home, and my handkerchief is my flag.

You have people like Sarah Jessica Parker - and it's also because of her mother and where she came from and all that stuff - but how you're taught to be responsible for yourself rather than endlessly people waiting for you and bringing you things.

History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning.

Nobody will save us from us but us.

I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am.

No diety will save us; we must save ourselves.

If I get home, I'll be so stinking rich, I'll be able to pay someone to do my hearing.

If you want to be a slave in life, then continue going around asking others to do for you. They will oblige, but you will find the price is your choices, your freedom, your life itself. They will do for you, and as a result you will be in bondage to them forever, having given your identity away for a paltry price. Then, and only then, you will be a nobody, a slave, because you yourself and nobody else made it so.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.

You're on your own now. You are not helpless. You will find your way.