Richard W. Bolling Quotes

I don't live in France; I live in myself.

I don't think about what other people want from me.

I've been trying to arrive at a person who is self-defined and able to make my own mistakes rather than having other people make them for me.

I think I have enough of a sense to know what works for me and what doesn't, without going into some big thing and analyzing what I do. I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.

My desire is to be as independent as I can be, as long as I can be, subject to being effective.

I can do whatever I want.

I'm responsible for what I am and what I want to be. I'm not trying to live by another's standards.

Up to now I've done everything I've wanted to do the way I wanted to do myself.

I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms; they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.

It's important for me to be free and know I'm acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that's important. You want to be your own person.

My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.

I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.

I am my own woman.

I'm nobody's deputy. I am who I am. I'm my own person.

I have great friends around me that are positive and I think that's the key to life is making your own path. Set your own rules because there is no set rule, there is no set look, there is no set anything. You make your own rules in your life. You make your own decisions.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.

I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.

Now, I simply do what I want.

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.

I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.

In a personal context, I'm not in the ground, and I'm not in an institution. So I guess I'm doing pretty good.

I have my life, my world. I do what I want, without annoying anyone.

I built my entire life on the idea of independence.