Deborah Meaden Quotes

Who ever lives life on their own terms?

Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.

I can't imagine people telling me what to do - I just can't imagine it.

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.

I do need my independence. I have to have that.

Independence is a very subjective assessment.

I don't care what anyone says. It's my life, and I can do what I like.

I'm totally committed to the cause of individuality. That's the only thing I stand by: independence.

What I say goes. I'm hitting shots that I want to hit. I'm doing the things that I want to do. I play it my way.

I always had that yearning, that hunger, to one day be independent and be my own person and build my own world. The most fulfilling thing is to live a life where you have freedom.

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

I'm not a big fan of people telling each other what to do, I'll say that.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

No one's going to tell me how to make my own choices. For too many years, everybody told me what to say and what to do and how to be.

I'll do what I like. It's my own life.

I never liked being told what to do, so even in school plays, I never liked being an actor.

I do things my way. I don't do things to make people happy or appease them.

I have my own life to live.

People should just let me be.

This is my way of living, and nobody's gonna tell me otherwise.

Being independent in my choices is important to me.

I don't have to explain myself to nobody. Nobody. I don't.

If a life could have a theme song - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is a religion, an obsession, a mania or all of these expressed in one word - individualism. I was born with that obsession, and I've never seen and do not know now a cause more worthy, more misunderstood, more seemingly hopeless and tragically needed.

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative.