Quotes About Autonomy

Can't nobody else get in there and help you. Your coach, he can't get in the ring and fight with you. You don't have your dad, your mom. When you get in the ring, you don't have anybody but yourself.

Nobody's going to help me when I get in that ring. That's how I like it: the responsibility's on me, and whatever happens is down to me, nobody else.

You custom make your own car, ain't nobody else driving that.

I just kind of do my own thing. I'm not trying to be like nobody else or nothing like that. Like when I travel, everybody's like, go to Dubai, it's a new thing. I can go to Dubai, but I'm not going to just because I'm not trying to go where everybody is going.

When other people say, 'Oh you're so-and-so's friend, brother, or husband,' it's reductive to the point of being white noise.

I have no boyfriend. No time. None send me over the moon, so I just kind of do my thing.

The thing is, what most people don't understand is that there are so many of us growing up in Europe who are not free to be ourselves. We're not allowed to be who we are. We are not free to marry or to be in relationships with people that we choose. We can't even pick our own career. This is the norm in the Muslim heartlands of Europe.

Hunx is kind of his own person that is not really me in my normal life.

I don't like it if I am being held like a baby. If someone holds me normally, and I'm not being coddled, I feel much more comfortable.

I'm not a yes man. When the UFC says, 'Jump,' I'm not saying, 'How high,' because that's not fair to me.

I am not interested in anyone and will let my mother decide about my marriage.

And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing.

Everybody knows that I don't have a muse. I'm not interested in that.

I like people with conviction, who are in control of themselves. I'm not interested in working with a designer who hires a creative director.

I'm not interested in people being interested in me.

I don't mind playing a mom, but if I'm just somebody in someone else's love story, then I'm not interested.

You don't need to know who I'm dating. You don't need to know what I'm doing. I'm fine with everybody not knowing that.

Respect your kids. They are their own people. I think sometimes we expect kids to be perfect when we're not perfect.

Tennis parents and stage mothers should take note. The kid has got to want to do it, not just to please the parent, but for himself.

In America, where no one judged or supervised her, where my father was too busy eating her cooking to notice whether she was eating it, too, my mother found herself newly enchanted by the taste of food.

What I notice a lot about millennials is that they have agency over their sexuality.

People give me advice all the time, and I don't take a blind bit of notice.

It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.

I think if I was interested in writing on my own, I would be a novelist - then you could write about yourself, and that would be it. You wouldn't need anyone else.