Quotes About Autonomy

At the Paris Opera Ballet, they were always making choices for me.

Federalism is an intrinsic part of our constitutional set-up.

It is part of being a goalkeeper: there is nobody behind to save you.

Kashmir aligned with India under certain conditions. Article 35A is part and parcel of this relationship.

As an actress you can participate, you can be a co-author, help the director. But I always wanted to be able to make the big decisions.

I see something that I don't like, I prefer not to participate and say, 'Look, I'll leave you to it, I wish you the best, a lot of luck and I support you, but I don't want to be there.'

So I let them be responsible for there particular areas. Then by the time it gets to me that means that there is a problem. I have my eyes open and I need to know something about every department but you don't want to micro manage any particular department.

I've never consciously chased a particular kind of a film or role. I choose from what is offered.

I didn't particularly like being objectified.

The feeling of having no choice or no say is a fear of mine, partly because the idea of loosening oneself from the burden and responsibility of choice and consequence is so intoxicating.

I'm a good acting partner for me... when I don't have anyone else, I do really well!

A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother.

I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.

It's very important in any relationship that one partner doesn't lose themselves in the other, and that's very easy if you're involved with a celebrity.

To be sure, not all women are looking for a partner.

Unmanned airplanes - and more broadly, autonomy in space, in the air, undersea - is a big future area for Boeing and an area where we are continuing to build out collaborations. So we are always looking for partners in that arena.

'Sweetback' represented an economic tour de force because I had no partners; I own it.

It is none of anyone's business how I make my films or my creative partnerships.

If we as a party are serious about devolution, then we must respect councils and nations enough to determine their own agenda.

A woman's body never really belongs to herself. As an infant, my body was my mother's, a detachable extension of her own, a digestive passage clamped and unclamped from her body. My parents would watch over it, watch over what went into and out of it, and as I grew up, I would be expected to carry on their watching by myself.

You have to let individuals make their own choices and respect that, even if it's your own child. And that's what was taken away from me. My father passed away thinking I still had to go back to his way of believing.

I am not a passenger in anything I do.

The Reformation meant more than just a change in humanity's relationship with God. By eliminating the confessional, it warned people that henceforth they would have to walk on their own two feet and would have to take responsibility for the consequences of their own decisions.

To be a '"free lord" in secret is better than being a public slave