Quotes About Autonomy

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free.

I have a pretty good family. But ever since I was little, I just felt like I wanted to be on my own. It was the same thing about school.

Choreographers tend to treat ballet dancers like kids they can manipulate.

I'm probably one of the most dangerous men in the world if I want to be. But I never wanted to be anything but me.

The more we try to control our kids and create who they are and where they're going, the more that will fall apart. That's a dangerous thing. So you need to actually manage the fear and figure out who your kids are. Who do they want to be and how can you help shape that, but not control it.

Nobody can dare me to do anything that I don't come up with on my own.

He who dares not reason, is a slave.

I clearly say yes to Big Data, yes to greater security and convenience, but no to paternalism and Big Brother.'

I eventually think its going to be the consumer who controls his own data.

I will not go on a blind date.

I've put projects out on my own label twice now and been very successful which shows you don't need a major label to back you in this day and age.

Well working by yourself, especially when no one knows about it, is totally liberating because it's very impulse-driven. You work when you want to work. You work when you can work. No deadlines. No conversation. No compromise. No help.

I don't like to rule by committee. I like sort of an autocratic way of dealing with things.

I've dealt every day of my life with my dad's career, the comparisons to him, with people wanting me to live up to him. I just put that stuff out of my head, I don't even hear it after awhile - I just turn my ears off.

If Quebecers want to keep the Canadian dollar, they'll keep it - and nobody can stop that, end of debate.

When I had entered Bollywood, I had decided that in the first decade of my career, I will do what others ask me to do, and in the next decade, I will do what I want.

I believe in decentralized democracy.

Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.

Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.

I've never been one to let others decide what's right for me or my children.

Well, what I tried to do is to just listen to my voice, because my voice is my boss. She decides.

I often say that Arizonans should decide what's best for Arizona.

I feel that the majority of people should decide for themselves what kind of government they want.

I never going to satisfy everybody, so I decided to satisfy myself.