Quotes About Autonomy

My parents are hard nuts. Especially my Dad. He never wanted me to struggle and he always wanted me to fight my own battles. He would never give me the easy option or the easy route.

I like being different and having options.

Show people a positive path that enables them to make progress on their own terms. Give them options and alternatives that empower them.

Listen, ladies and gentlemen. America is still a country of choices and options. And I have a lot of them.

So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.

She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.

I never liked being ordered around - which, of course, was an overreaction. I eventually found out that I didn't mind being ordered around at all when it was by someone who knew what he was doing.

I have an issue with others ordering for me, and I spend far too long haranguing people that my choices are the best. I apologize for the amount of conversations I have ruined with this attitude.

You'll be glad to know that I'm not taking my marching orders from the Democrats.

Twyla Tharp is not going to take orders from anyone, not even Mozart!

But I don't believe in organised politics, organised religion, organised music, organised anything.

I don't believe in organised happiness.

One thing the Giants are great at is pretty much leaving you alone and working with what you have. A lot of organizations might try to change guys right away. Not the Giants.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

I am your original autodidact.

There's something really unique about 'Orphan Black' is that it has a lot of female leads, so it's about a lot of women's stories, but it's not women's stories in terms of trying to find a guy or keep a guy; it's about entirely other things.

Not like other countries, we will never ask anyone to fight for us.

It was funny being at high school and also grocery shopping and having a job. Other kids were going home to their parents, who were doing their laundry, and I was like, 'Wait, what?' I was super isolated. I was 16, alone in New York, and modelling.

Here's the thing: If you don't want your kids to read a book, fine. You can tell them not to read a book, and maybe they will and maybe they won't. But you can't say what other kids can read.

When I follow my own head, I am, in general, much more correct in my judgment than following the opinion of others.

Everybody enjoys when a woman is her own character in a movie or otherwise.

People ought to have more control over their lives.

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

Anarchists believe we can run our lives without the government.