Quotes About Autonomy

I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself.

If Paul McCartney tells me that so-and-so song is his favorite song, what do I care? What do I care what anybody else says?

I enjoy clothes. My mother tells me how, even as a kid, I used to choose my own clothes. I have a feel for it, and I do the costume coordination for my photo shoots as well. Many a time, even my characters wear the clothes I choose.

No one tells me what to do with my music. Real. My mom doesn't tell what to say, how is someone else going to?

No one tells salesmen what they can and can't do.

When my mother tells me to do something, I'll do my own thing. A strong character can be good, but sometimes it is not good. I hope it's good in my case.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.

I just kind of feel like it's my choice to do what I want to do. And my agent, he's totally with it. He tells me, 'You can turn down any audition you don't want to.'

You don't get shouted at at the 'Guardian.' Nobody bullies you at the paper; nobody tells you what to write. Now, I love working in that atmosphere; I am free to research and write what I want.

My husband may have been in the military, but no one tells me which leader to follow.

No one pretty much tells me what kind of horror films to make.

Being a Sikh meant having to do what Mom and Dad said, and going to temple, and Mom and Dad choosing who I would marry. But going to an American school taught me that I was the one who's supposed to make those choices.

When we do for those in need what they have the capacity to do for themselves, we disempower them.

Never do for the poor what they have (or could have) the capacity to do for themselves.

developing the dependency-free zone is the real challenge.

I am A man, not a sponge! If god wished a sponge to think, A SPONGE WOULD THINK!

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and his fellow men.

Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.

What light is to the eyes – what air is to the lungs – what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

No one can control his own opinion or his own belief. My belief was forced upon me by my surroundings. I am the product of all circumstances that have in any way touched me.

With every drop of my blood I hate and execrate every form of tyranny, every form of slavery. I hate dictation. I love liberty.