Quotes About Autonomy

Some people refuse to accept the limits given to them by others.

Nobody told David Clarke what to think, what to feel, what to say, what to believe in, who to marry, what kind of food to eat - you know that thing that the race hustlers like to say defines your blackness? But yet every time I look in the mirror in the morning, I see a black guy looking back at me.

If you want to live a miserable life, making your life all about other people is the way to do it.

You can't let people control your feelings, or you'll live a pretty miserable life trying to change them.

It's very much up to you, how you shape your life. I mean, I missed out on human relationships. But looking at relationships that I've seen along the way, I don't think I've missed much.

I really don't need anyone to come to Mississippi to generate a vote for me.

I like to make my own mistakes.

There has to be room for people to make mistakes and lead their own lives.

It's great being your own boss, but then, you know, you make your own mistakes, you know, and you own them. You know, so it's empowering, and it's also humbling along the way.

I'm not much of a matchmaker. I think people have to make their own choices and mistakes and all that stuff.

I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.

Sports and politics don't mix.

I don't think politics and sport should be mixed up.

We always did our own mixing.

Restrictions on mobility will be removed as cars become driverless. We'll be chauffeured, basically.

I am not a role model for anyone.

I've never been interested in a career in modelling, I was interested in my independence. When I was in school, modelling was what I needed to reach independence without having to leave.

I began life as an absolute monarchist - on condition, of course, that I be that monarch.

I am in favour of a different Europe, where each state can adopt its fiscal and monetary system.

How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being?

Morality depends on individual freedom, and it requires some sense to know where to draw the line.

I'm kind of tired of chasing people, calling out everybody because I always do that. All I can do right now is be the guy to beat everybody else, so there's no more people that they can go and try to run and make fights and situations happen for them that we're allowing.

More power to the people who get to choose their roles. I don't.

I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character.