Quotes About Autonomy

Why employ intelligent and highly paid ambassadors and then go and do their work for them? You don't buy a canary and sing yourself.

We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.

People always say that Randy Moss can't stick to the rules. Even my own rules.

I'm a man who makes his own decisions and sticks with them; I think there's a lot of integrity in that.

I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't see any stigma attached to it. We don't need a man to prove our identity anymore.

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.

No one owns you. One hundred per cent of the stock in your personal corporation belongs to you.

I put less stock in others' opinions than my own. No one else's opinions could derail me.

I am not in the stock market. I am beholden to no one in what I do. If I spend billions on a fashion show, I spend billions. It's not public. And if I am in the stock market, I am obligated to account for things, and to show what the business is doing.

The slavery at Bufford's was too fresh in my recollection to let me care to bind myself again. From the time that I took my nose off that lithographic stone, I have had no master, and never shall have any.

I have stood on my own feet.

'No' is an entire sentence in itself. No means no, and when somebody says it, you need to stop.

What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.

That's the first sign you know you're a Libertarian. You see the red light. You stop. You realize that there's not a car in sight. And you put your foot on the gas.

It can be very frustrating and very deflating to be constantly defined and described by other people, so I've stopped reading anything written about me, and I find it much healthier. I just sort of concentrate on what I do and don't worry too much about that.

A father draws boundaries and calls a halt, whenever necessary. As I didn't have that, I was able to stay childishly naive that much longer - so I did what I liked, because there was nobody stopping me, even when I got it wrong.

I have complete creative freedom. If I want to put a song on the album, there's no one stopping me.

When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.

If you live your life by what others say, it stops being your life.

I like being able to go to the grocery store and know that nobody knows what I do or who I am.

I go to the store. I go get my car fixed. I have friends. I have a life, but nobody needs to know about it. Because I'm just the same as anyone else.

I'm very interested in how we take ownership of our own stories and our own lives.

I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences, so I was able to make my own decisions about what I wanted to do.