Quotes About Autonomy

Someone tried to introduce me to Michael Bloomberg, but I declined.

I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.

We all have the power, intuition, and ability to think and act for ourselves until we give that power away. We give our power away because we're bullied into thinking we aren't good enough and someone else must know better than us; therefore, we should give over our instincts and act according to instruction.

Even when I was rebelling against my father, the point was to follow my own intuition and instinct.

Time is a resource, much like money or autonomy, which can be invaluable or can be squandered.

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

It is entirely up to us to invent our own lives.

I believe investigative agencies should be run in an autonomous manner, and there shouldn't be any interference from the government's side.

I've been investing in and funding myself since day one.

Being independent isn't as flashy as a lot of people may think. It's a lot of hard work; its a lot of investing your own money. And to creatively time to make your day work - it's on you to make it work, and no one else.

I don't want to be on anyone's board. I just want to have good investments.

As a small brand, we do it all. We don't need an investor. We would never go anywhere or do anything where we feel it would compromise what we do.

I definitely feel like I'm at that point where it's nice to not have to sit at home and wait to be invited to the party, but to be creating work for yourself.

There's something about a woman's life choices that invites commentary, whether it's been invited or not.

I am a great believer in having the power to end your life and knowing that, in extremis, you can. But I would not want to involve anybody else in my actions if it could imperil them.

I am not exactly Mrs. Good Housekeeping, although I love to cook, bake, even iron, but only because it's not mandatory.

Everyone is different, and each has to create his or her own path, irrespective of who their parents are.

We want Austrian-style Islam, not one controlled by other states.

We prefer to be isolated in Odisha. That is a policy of equidistance, and going it alone has served us well in the past.

I've always wanted to be independent and answer for myself. That probably is the part of me I would class to be feminist. I'd like to have children; marriage I have a bit of an issue with.

There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

Why marry myself to an entire album? I don't have to. If I download four songs from somebody on an iTunes sojourn, that's about as good as it gets.

I never had to ask Def Jam for anything.

Leaving Def Jam was kind of a blessing in disguise because we can make whatever record we want.