Quotes About Autonomy

Everyone wants you to define your life until the end of your life.

I've been able to define who I am and my brother is able to do his thing.

I don't think every relationship needs to be defined.

How dull it is to have people defining you.

To defer to someone else's definition of a life well-lived is a Faustian bargain.

There ain't no way the state of Delaware is gonna tell me how to sign my own license!

I know what I want, and it's hard to delegate.

I believe in decentralized management that includes a lot of delegation, empowerment, and accountability.

Believe me, I do not go to Delhi, I do not know anybody in Delhi.

I don't want to see my family all the time, and they're delighted, I'm sure, to be aware of that.

With independent music, I can do what I feel satisfied with, and not feel the pressure of what others expect me to deliver.

I'm there from conception to delivery of an album because I don't want anybody getting in the middle of my music and meddling with my work while I'm on the road.

By the time I was 14, I had become self-motivated. Whatever raced inside me was more demanding than any pressure applied by parents or teachers.

I don't even realize sometimes I am spending hours and hours on the field, because it is something I decide to do, not something someone else demands of me.

I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.

Every Democrat, like every American, should support a woman's right to make her own choices about her body and her health. That is not negotiable.

I'm not a Democrat.

Education has always been very important to me. It means you don't have to depend on anyone else.

Always make sure that you can support yourself and that you always have a cushion. And never, ever, depend on anyone else for money.

I don't want to depend on anyone.

To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery.

I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and deliver.

I don't ever want to have to depend on anyone completely.

I'm proud that my clients are working to support themselves and those who depend on them.