Victoria Pendleton Quotes

I don't really put too much emphasis on what somebody else might think of it. Otherwise your putting limits on yourself.

I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no?

I don't care what other people think any more about me writing my own parts.

It's my only freedom, music, and I'm not going to give it up to anyone else.

Let LeBron be LeBron.

I was born alone, I'm gonna die alone. I have my own identity. I'm my own person, and no two people are the same.

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.

My image is me. I talk for myself. I didn't become this person others wanted me to be.

Those who fear that we are losing our individualism couldn't be more wrong: Americans have never been more free to create and recreate themselves.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.

My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

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 have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

My father raised me to think independently and follow my own path in life.

I've learned not to let people judge me in how I want to live my life. Every single woman is an individual, and there's no one path. You just have to take the path that you think is right for you.

I don't have a specific thing I want anyone to get out of anything I do.

I'm not a slave to fashion; I'm into exercising my individuality.

If you are confident in yourself and however you want yourself to be presented, and you're doing well and doing it because you want to do it and not because someone is pressuring you, then more power to you.

I can't be a spokesman for anything other than my own concerns. I have to be free to wrestle with my own preoccupations, and if I'm bringing any political awareness to that process, that mitigates my freedom.

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

Don't let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.