Quotes About Autonomy

If everyting's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!" (Jonas) "It's the choosing that's imortant, isn't it?" The Giver asked him.

One thing I've often thought is that I never want to tell anybody else what to do. It's hard enough to figure out what I want to do.

People can vote for who ever they want. That doesn't mean I have to go near them.

I think in the world of rock music or whatever it's called - anything outside of Nashville - there's a lot more freedom within that industry to do whatever you want to do.

What I'm not - I can't control other people's campaigns. If they decide that's what they want to do with their time and money, they certainly have a right to do it.

. . . the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to do, and, second, to do what you do want to do.

I think a lot of times, people don't want to do what their parents do because they want to be their own person.

When I found out my mother wanted me to marry a rich man, I instantly didn't want any rich man.

Cuba will find its own way, regardless of what the U.S. wants. This has always been the case, not just since 1959.

Having a studio tell you when to jump and how high eight months of the year for six years is not a relationship I want to get into again.

All I'm looking for is a guy who'll do what I want, when I want, for as long as I want, and then go away. Or wait nearby, like a Dust Buster, charged up and ready when needed.

I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.

I am not a princess, I don't want to be referred to as a princess - I find that super creepy.

I don't think you play for other people's expectations, you know. You don't go and become a lawyer because your mother or father want you to, you don't become a coach because somebody wants you to.

You don't have to tell anybody a damn thing you don't want to.

I'm enough of an anarchist aesthetically, when it comes to art - I want people to be reading my stuff voluntarily. They should be doing it because they want to.

I think when you mature, you realize that you really don't have to do anything you don't want to do or be represented in a way that doesn't suit you.

In real life, you care about other people, but at the end of the day you're like, "I'm acting upon whatever it is that I want or need."

I can drive. Let's just say you don't want to be in the passenger seat.

People will say what they want to say, in the way they want to.

It seems self-evident that we should want people to be free, to be able to play an active part in making decisions about matters of concern to them, to the largest possible extent.

It's called Paris, not Hilton, just me, because I don't want people to think it's my family's. It's mine.

I will never be a leader of men, and neither do I want to be one, and neither do I want to be led. I thought: I want to lead only myself.

The thing I've always liked about performing is that I decide what I want to wear, whether I want to comb my hair.