Quotes About Autonomy

A website can be very time-intensive, but I'd love to have one where people can contribute to it - like invent islands and make their own flags, and their own laws. I think that'd be kind of fun.

I was never the girl who tore pictures out of wedding magazines.

There is no way in the world anyone else could do my wedding other than myself, along with whomever I select to do various things.

For the readers out there, if your girlfriend says she's having a girls' weekend, do not show up with a bottle of rose. No one wants to see your face there.

We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie.

That is our dilemma in Poland. We don't like to be ruled by the East.

For me, running against the Poles and Czechs would be like running against high school kids. And I hate all this gung-ho, run-for-the-red-white-and-blue attitude that the AAU spouts. If that's important to some people, fine, more power to 'em. But, damn it, I wish they'd leave me alone to do what I want to do - run against the best.

Freelancers are 'free' because they take risks - they don't like being told what to do. That's both exciting and daunting, because you have to police you.

I don't want to play police games. When you start playing police games, I take myself out of the equation.

I rebelled against all form of authority, against my grandfather, my step-father, the Church, the police, the government, the bosses. Everything male that was there, and was determining my life.

I wouldn't want to have the thought police going to people's homes, dictating what they teach their children. I don't want to be Big Brotherish. I would hate that.

The BJP decides its own policies.

It's nice to work with the same people. You don't have to be polite. You know each other's likes and dislikes, and you don't have to micromanage and look at what they're doing every moment.

I have no political affiliations and have always and do now consider myself an independent.

I do not want to be a pawn in a political campaign.

My point of view on most issues, my point of view on political issues, doesn't check all the boxes for any movement or any ideology, so I don't feel any burden to give voice to anybody but myself.

I'm a very individualistic person. That is why I don't belong to any political party or anything. I really believe in justice and freedom.

I don't want to be identified with any political party.

We have to save ourselves from ourselves. We have to minimize the effect our own politicians can have on our society. We have to get some rules from the outside.

During the Middle Ages, Jews were members of a semi-independent polity within a larger polity.

There's nothing wrong with taking yourself out of the dating pool. You don't need to be in a relationship because that's what society expects of you or because your grandmother thinks you need to be married by a certain date. Those days are over. Instead, take a step back and say, 'I'm OK alone.'

Freedom is popular. Bring it on.

For the most part, I don't care about what everyone else is doing, or what is popular.

I try not to be influenced by success or popularity.