Quotes About Autonomy

Never get involved with someone who wants to change you

People can dress you the way they want, they can do your makeup the way they want, but they can never take away your voice.

The only person I can count on is myself. It's up to me to create the life I want. I can't blame my parents or Scott or anyone else for the way things are.

Do not tell me what I can and cannot do. I'll be as asian as I want to (Stretches his eyes in a racist manner).

I'm not a slave to the recording industry. I have the freedom to make an album that I want to make and do it the way I want.

Just because you like me doesn't make me what you want or need.

You know, I'd get a tattoo with your name on it. Only, I want you to have the freedom to change your name if you want to.

There is only one person who can ever know exactly what you want and truly make you happy - that person is you!

Don't let anyone dictate what you should and shouldn't wear. Do what you want. Who cares?

Entrepreneurship is the freedom to do what you want, when you want, how you want.

I don't behave the way people necessarily want me to, but I tried behaving that other way for a short period of time and it didn't take.

And ordering me around is exactly the wrong way to make me do what you want.

Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want.

Kids need to start thinking for themselves. Not to be like their friends that think they're individuals. I don't want you to be like us, I want you to be like you.

You know, you can't make the people do what you want them to do.

One thing I want you to understand is if I make a decision, it's my decision.

When it comes to picking parts, I do make an effort to choose parts that I want to do, and not necessarily parts someone else wants me to do, or parts that someone else is going to respond to.

You get to do what you want to do – if that's what you want to do.

I love it when the director says, 'Rebel, just do whatever you want.' I'm, like, 'Yes!

Who gets to decide what you want?

Let me finish my music, and let me present it the way I want to present it. And then share it, put it online, do whatever you want to do after that.

Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.

If I can make the movies I want, people are going to watch it how they're going to watch it.

Are Iraqis ready to carry the responsibility for their country? Is Iraq ready to be its own master? We want to be the masters of ourselves and to carry our responsibilities in this region.