Novala Takemoto Quotes

You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.

I do not choose to be a common man. It is my right to be an uncommon man—if I can. I seek opportunity, not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me.

You just gotta live your life and do it your way.

The first rule of survival is: Make your own rules. The hell anyone thinks about the way you're acting; listen only to yourself.

Be an independent thinker at all times, and ignore anyone who attempts to define you in a limiting way.

For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have they have right to hold.

You have to figure out ways to do things on your own. I do my own thing, and I don't pay much attention to what anyone else is doing.

I'm a very individualistic person. That is why I don't belong to any political party or anything. I really believe in justice and freedom.

And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own.

I don't live on other people's terms.

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

I don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own.

I am a rank individualist.

No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.

There's a line in the picture where he snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life.

But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them.

I guess I'm just fiercely independent.

Usually, I just do what I want, because I got it that way.

I am my own party.

The essence of freedom is that each of us shares in the shaping of his own destiny.

Who ever lives life on their own terms?

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

Everyone just needs to be his own man.

Don't be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

I could never understand the herd mentality. I have always fought to do things my way and have stuck to that.