Alan Dershowitz Quotes

My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own.

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

I don't need adult supervision.

Kids raised to be pampered and spoiled don't really end up being good leaders. Leaders need to be independent minded and confident.

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

The driving force behind doing everything that I've been doing for 11 years as a stand-up is having problems with authority and not liking to be told what to do.

Well, I'm an independent person.

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

We must regain the confidence and drive to decide our own destiny.

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

I guess I'm just fiercely independent.

I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.

To be honest, I've always had far too much freedom. I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. I've earned my own money; I've traveled the world. What would I rebel against?

As you grow and mature, you will want and will earn more freedom to live your lives your way and to make your own choices. This you should do.

To know whether it be in the interest of the Continent to be independent, we need only to ask this, simple question: Is it in the interest of a man to be a boy all his life?

I have a fiercely independent spirit.

Who ever lives life on their own terms?

It's nice to finally be my own person.

Everyone just needs to be his own man.

Being independent opens the doors to so many other things for you.

I will always make my own path.

I am a fiercely independent person, and I am no one's pawn.

I'll handle living on my own. You've got to learn somehow. I'll take it all in my stride like I do everything else.

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