Quotes About Autonomy

If some actress thinks she is sexy and she can dance, it's her choice. I do what I want to do, and I set my own benchmark. I will never compare myself with anyone.

I don't care what anybody thinks.

We do what we want. We don't care what anyone else thinks.

You should learn to be happy with what you have. Besides, the fact that I'm not a huge star has allowed me to pick and choose the roles I want to do, not the ones some person sitting in a studio office thinks I should do.

Why would I care what other people are thinking? I don't care what an audience thinks of me.

Freedom comes with a lot of responsibility. When you are by yourself, you have to develop a third eye.

Obviously spending my teenage years in music, and in popular music, I wanted to continue this career, but in a way that allows me to dictate it and create it myself as opposed to relying on third party or more corporate decision making.

And I remember as a second or third grader having some autonomy to go to the store if I felt like it, walk home, take my time, kick the can. We were on our own schedule after school, so that was cool.

Let the Third World get some self-determination. Let the Nicaraguans make their own mistakes.

I was a commercial roofer before this, until about age thirty. I will not work others under me and do not want to work under others.

I can never thoroughly appreciate meals on ships because, away from land, I feel my autonomy is restricted.

I thought one should have the attitude of 'What do you care what other people think!'

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.

It's no fun feeling your thoughts are being controlled by an electrode, and someone else is holding the clicker.

Americans different in some maybe thoughts or emphasis still have the same ideas. They want a government that lets them be free, that leaves them alone, that doesn't interrupt and interfere with every aspect of their life, that lets them go to work and keep more of what they've worked hard to have.

Think your own thoughts.

Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don't live entirely upon the thoughts of others. Don't be an automaton.

My family lived in Thousand Oaks. In 2002, when I was 17, I begged my parents to let me move out. I had money, a real job, and wanted to get my own place.

I don't feel the breath of a thousand people over my shoulder.

She had never lived alone before, and at first found it strange, but gradually had learned to accept it as a blessing and to indulge herself in all sorts of reprehensible ways, like getting up when she felt like it, scratching herself if she itched, sitting up until two in the morning to listen to a concert.

It's our money, and we're free to spend it any way we please.

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

He rose to his feet in one fluid move, the better to look down at me. "You don't know me, princess. Some people have reasons for doing things, and don't just go wherever they're told or drift whichever way they're pushed.