Deborah Meaden Quotes

I'm quite contrary. If people agree on something, I tend to gravitate the other way by my nature. I don't like to be told what to do. I think it goes back to school. I like to do things I want to do and I really don't like doing what I don't want to do.

I'm bad at doing what I'm told. I'm a born free thinker.

I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.

I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school.

I don't run behind authority.

I'm that weird guy; I hate being told what to do.

I have to say I have never been comfortable with somebody else telling me what to do - in any way.

I can have someone tell me to do stuff all the time every day, and if I don't want to do it, I ain't gonna do it.

I have a really hard time with people telling me what to do.

I've always found it hard to do what I'm told - I'm not very good at conforming.

Often I'd say I understood the coach, then do my own thing on the field.

I really wasn't very much of a rebel. I'm seen by people now as more of a rebel which is strange. I don't like doing what people tell me to do. I don't deliberately rebel against them.

I do not bow. I do not obey. I do not 'worship.'

I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her.

I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.

I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy.

I've never been a yes man.

I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.

Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.

I've always had trouble with authority.

I've never been any good with authority.

I've always been in a rebel.

I really rebel against authority.

We won't just automatically click our heels and follow the Americans.

I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.