Quotes About Autonomy

The alternative to independence is decline, because the relationship with the Spanish state is not good; everyone knows that.

Even when we were under the Spanish flag, we had a movement that just wanted assimilation into Spain, a movement of autonomy - which has been the majority always - and a movement for separation. In that sense, Puerto Rico's political reality is very different from any place I know in the whole world.

As an author you hope your characters have sparks but truly in the end they have minds of their own!

I am not telling men to step away from speaking for women's rights; rather, I am focusing on women to be independent to fight for themselves.

Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.

Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.

For a crowd to be smart, the people in it need to be not only diverse in their perspectives but also, relatively speaking, independent of each other. In other words, you need people to be thinking for themselves, rather than following the lead of those around them.

My philanthropy is no relation to anybody else's. None. My philanthropy and what we do at the foundation speaks for itself and has no relation to anyone's.

I speak for myself, my record speaks for itself, and my ability speaks for itself.

I don't want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.

Most of the time, I do my own hair. I have good hair, so I don't need much. I don't need a hairdresser to come unless I want something very specific.

I'm not here to - as a parent, I believe we are specifically here to help our children mature in the way that they can take on their own lives. I'm not here to live their lives for them. That's not my job.

Even though I was 27 when I left, I still was largely treated like a child, because I wasn't married. My parents, my mother specifically, knew where I was and what I was doing at all times.

It's a simple quality of human nature that people prefer to choose to do things rather than be ordered to do them. In fact, as soon as you tell me I have to do something - give a speech, attend a banquet, go to Cannes - I immediately start looking for ways to avoid doing it.

If you look at the ability of a self-driving car to stay in the lane and not to speed and keep a good distance to the car in front of you, it actually does better than me.

I have to work at my own speed.

It's our money, and we're free to spend it any way we please.

Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can make responsible choices - between right and wrong, saving and spending, giving or taking.

It is one of my pet hates when I see players who have agents who do everything for them. They don't know how to set up their own bank accounts, they don't know what they are spending their money on and they can't make their own decisions.

I've enjoyed the pleasures of working since I was 12 and earned all my own spending money since I was 14.

There is no point in spending time with someone who makes you forget your sense of self.

A lot of money is spent trying to keep people alive who don't necessarily want to be alive.

Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.