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Quotes About Autonomy

The natural state of man is to want to be free. To have opportunities. To have choices.
~ Donald Rumsfeld
Socks may eat wherever they want to.
~ Dorothea Kent
It should be up to each bar owner and patron to decide if they want to smoke or not.
~ Drew Carey
Every now and then, a person must do something simply because he wants to, because it seems to him worth doing. And that does not make it worthless or a waste of time.
~ E. L. Konigsburg
So we are not doing the traditional album, tour, album, tour, album, tour anymore. We're going to tour when we want to, regardless of whether we've got a record out.
~ Ed O'Brien
I couldn't really be a part of high school, because I have a terrible time doing things that I don't want to do. I'm not good at it. It's not even like, I'm a rebel. I'm just bad at it, you know?
~ El-P
I do what I love to do. I have awesome people who let me make the choices I want to make. I navigate things by whether I want to play a part or not, to be honest.
~ Ellen Page
If I can not dance, I want no part in your revolution.
~ Emma Goldman
Footballers nowadays are controlling their image through their own Facebook page so its not the club that controls them anymore, they do what they want at anytime.
~ Emmanuel Petit
I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's.
~ Emmylou Harris
I don't think I've ever changed. I am only one person, it's just me. I'm confident and I'm quite happy with who I am, but it's my life and I'll be what I want.
~ Eric Burdon
Everybody has their own free choice to do what they want.
~ Eric Idle
I crave the freedom of knowing that if I want to do something, I can do it. It's important that I live in such a way that I can maintain a direct response to ideas.
~ Errollyn Wallen
People need to understand that the technology is for them. It's not to them. It's not over them. People still sometimes want to be led a little too much.
~ Esther Dyson
People have to understand that they can reject technology. They can turn off their cell phone. They can stop looking at their e-mail. It's there if they want it. It's not being forced on them.
~ Esther Dyson
I've always said I don't want to have kids. I don't want a kid at all, but I do like reverse-engineering myself; managing and parenting myself.
~ Fiona Apple
I have amazing collaborators as well, but I want to learn more and be a self-contained unit.
~ FKA twigs
I don't micromanage the interiors. People ask me to and I say no. I don't want to control everything.
~ Frank Gehry
To have to liberate everybody doesn't sound very free to me. You're gong to go liberate people who maybe don't want to be liberated.
~ Frederick Lenz
It's not that difficult to say no when you don't want to do something.
~ Freida Pinto
Anybody, anywhere in the world, all they want is to be free, to choose what they want to do without having someone tell them how to do it.
~ Freida Pinto
Having grown up in Bombay, from the day youre born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.
~ Freida Pinto
I have learned to walk: ever since, I let myself run. I have learned to fly: ever since, I do not want to be pushed before moving along.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
There were many kinds of freedom, and the most precious ones were secret.
~ Steven Erikson