Bill Dixon Quotes

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

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

I like to play by my own rules.

I just know that it's smart for my career to carve my own path and do my own thing.

I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.

I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected.

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

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.

I know a little about CM Punk in that he does his own thing. I'm inspired by people who do that in their own life. That they just do their own thing no matter what the consequences are.

It's a lot of fun to identify with a character who lives by their own rules.

Do what you really want to do. Don't play their game! Don't do what they want. Find your own 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.

There is no sin worse in life than being boring--and nothing worse than letting other people tell you what to do. I was one of the few heiresses to walk the runway as a model. A lot of people thought that was shocking. Why did I do it? Was it a desperate cry for attention, like the papers said? Hardly. It's not like I need any more attention. Did I do it for money? Of course not. Modeling doesn't pay that well, anyway, unless you're Gisele or Cindy Crawford, or, like Patti Hansen, you get to marry a rock star. I did it because it was fun.

We never did things as we were supposed to do. That was part of our ethic. We did what felt right to us, not what someone told us we should do.

There are two metaphors for Mario the person and not Mario the footballer. I think I am a man, but I don't believe I need to say it. But I could also be Peter Pan because I do things my own way and I am free. So, yes, maybe I should say that I am Peter Pan - although I am much more of a man.

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 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 don't care who or what judges me, nothing's going to stop me from living my life how I choose.

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

The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.

I think a lot of people would rather have more control over their life than less.

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

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you're nuts, and you're not as popular with girls as you should be.

I did not let people tell me what to do, and I never wanted to be a groupie.

I don't like people telling me what to do. I'm very independent.