Quotes About Autonomy

I'm not the kind of person that seeks out other people's opinions on my works.

At the end of the day, I can't curl up with people's opinions.

I learned my lesson early in my career that it's not helpful to go and look at what other people's opinions are.

A lot of people have ideas and opinions on what Avenged Sevenfold should be or what we should do, and I think our No. 1 rule is to always make sure we never listen to any of that and to always do what we believe.

Everyone has their own opinions, and they're entitled to them.

I can't have people always having their opinions floating my way.

Other people's opinions don't matter to me.

The right to choose to live or to die is the most fundamental right there is; conversely, the duty to give others that opportunity to the best of our ability is the most fundamental duty there is.

I'm just living my life the way I want to live it, as opposed to the way people think I should live it.

As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee.

I am opposed to anybody making a decision for you or me or anybody else about what health care plan we should have.

I'm opposed to Blue Cross telling me how to practice medicine. Or anybody else.

I was opposed to the government telling me how to practice medicine when I was a doctor.

I just want everybody to know that I'm opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.

I think I prefer writing books because the work of art begins and ends with you - it's easier to know if you're doing it right, as opposed to writing a play and then waiting around for somebody else to complete it.

The minute I was told what to do at any age, I did the opposite. Hopefully I'll do that for the rest of my life.

I can't wait until I have my children. I love the idea that they don't have to do something that they have no interest in, that they can do something completely opposite if they want to.

I've always been the opposite of mainstream. I march to my own beat. It's the only way I know.

If anyone says, 'Let's have a girls' night out,' I will run in the opposite direction.

I know my kids best. I know what morals and values are right for my children. I think we should not have an oppressive state telling us what to do.

There's nobody telling Oprah what to do. There's no one telling David Letterman what he can and can't do. You've got to have 100 percent support from everybody who's behind the show, across the board.

I don't want everyone to like me, and I don't choose who likes me. You have to give them the choice, give them the option.

My parents gave me the easy option that if you're going to go your way, that's the highway. You can expect no funds and no support, which I think was legitimate; that was a fair option.

I haven't been in a position to be a free agent or know what that is like and then to have the chance to go where you want to go. That's always been - I feel, with players, they want that option.