Anoushka Shankar Quotes

I think I've claimed the right to be any version of me that I want to be.

You make yourself be whatever the hell you want to be, at the end of the day.

Let LeBron be LeBron.

Now that I'm older, I understand that it's up to the individual to decide who they are or what they are.

I think, in the end, we are all our own individual person.

the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.

You need to be your own individual.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.

There is a great suspicion of saying that anyone, especially a child, is 'the product of destiny,' or 'formed by fate,' or 'predestined for a certain life.' I am suspicious, too, of efforts to cage children or adults in preconceived ideas of who they are or should be.

Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do.

I am definitely an individual.

I want to be defined by my own essence.

People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.

I can be whoever I want. I can feel however I want.

I thought of myself as an individual ever since I was little.

I don't play no one else's game and I don't run no one else's race because if I did that, I wouldn't be who I am.

I do only what I like. If we do something we don't like, we will become someone else.

At the end of the day, I'm my own person.

I'm not trying to live anybody else's life.

I want people to see me as my own person.

That's what you have to learn with life. It's your life at the end of the day. There's really no right or wrong way to do things. Everybody has a way they think you should do it. So why not do it your way, you know what I mean, respectfully.

The gender is irrelevant; the identity is the one you should try and create for yourself by yourself, and the narrative of your own life becomes your own book.

Janhvi has her own individuality.