Maggie Hassan Quotes

I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15.

You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise you will be destroyed.

I'm a survivalist and a survivor.

The Haiti that has been waiting for help and not moving no longer exists. Enough handouts; we need hands up. Enough aid; we need trade.

My grandmother raised five children during the Depression by herself. At 50, she threw her sewing machine into the back of a pickup truck and drove from North Dakota to California. She was a real survivor, so that's my stock. That's how I want my kids to be too.

Now, in Texas, we believe in the rugged individual. Texas may be the one place where people actually still have bootstraps, and we expect folks to pull themselves up by them. But we also recognize there are some things we can't do alone. We have to come together and invest in opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow.

We are very isolated, far from boyfriends and friends, so we have to be strong, smart and very professional.

You like to be independent, but you will need to learn to ask for help. It doesn't make you weak.

The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.

I am a firm believer in if you can't get it the old fashioned way, you don't need it.

Greeks have always been very confident, very strong people. That is - that is our real, I guess, benefit, is that we are independent thinkers. We will always get up on our feet. We - we sometimes act the best when we are downtrodden.

In trying times, Coloradans do what we always have done: pull together and get it done.

That is always what I've had to do in life: to show I am capable of surviving.

There's something quite satisfying, quite reassuring about seeing a man having to survive.

Being culturally ambiguous and having to deal with bullying made me strong and independent.

After my father died, we faced hardship but never asked anybody for help. We were self-sufficient.

I wouldn't be where I am right now, and have the right work ethic and discipline, if it weren't for all the indie films I did. We weren't pampered and were pretty much on our own.

I've never been spoon-fed for my whole career, I have always done it the hard way as a player and a manager.

That callousness that comes from feeling like you have to survive on your own - I really empathized with that.

With AC/DC, if you've got a problem, you sort it out yourself.

Can't nobody handle me.

I always kept busy. If the music business got bad I'd get me a job doin' somethin' else. Bellhop. Porter. Anything to make an honest living.

I know lots of friends who grew up without fathers and it actually makes you stronger. You have more to prove, you have to protect yourself.

In the beginning, I was doing whatever came my way. But that's how life is. I am not sitting around calling a 'daddy' to make a movie for me.

That loss was to breed an independence, a toughness of spirit, and an awareness of adversity and discipline that have never left me,.