A Quote by Simone Elkeles

I want to live life on my own terms.

Simone Elkeles

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Simone Elkeles
American - Author
Born: April 24, 1970

If you want to live in Tennessee, God bless you, I wish for you a long life and starry evenings. But that is not where I want to live my life. I want to live my life in Carthage, in Athens. I want to live my life in Rome. I want to live my life in the center of the world. I want to live my life in Los Angeles.

Richard Rodriguez

If you are going to live life on your own terms, there need to be terms, and somehow you need to live up to them.

Robert B. Parker

While I do not want to live my life like Lemmy chose to live his, I can't help but admire the strength and determination it took for Lem to do it all on his own terms and remain true to himself.

W. Earl Brown

I certainly do like to live life on my own terms. It would be great to live in a world where women get the respect and support that my family has given me to make my own choices.

Lisa Haydon

I'm intrigued and drawn to people who know exactly who they are, who know what they want, who live life on their own terms.

Taylor Swift

I want to live life on my own terms. But I'm Mexican, so mi familia is always there to guide me in everything I do, whether I want them to or not. Well, "guide" is too weak a word. "Dictate" is more like it.

Simone Elkeles

I don't really worry so much about image. I try to just live my own life, my personal life, to my own sense of morality. In terms of the kinds of characters that I play, well, they could be anything.

Kevin Bacon

It definitely is something that can get frustrating, because you want to live life on your own terms, and it feels for a while like you can't. But I've come to understand that I got to have all these amazing experiences that other people don't have. So this is the trade-off.

Mara Wilson

I understand reversal of fortune; that usually has come through my own hand, but you know, you live life on life's terms.

Robert Downey, Jr.

I just live life on my own terms. And I smile a lot.

Tyler Florence

We only begin to live life when we learn to accept it on its own terms.

Arthur Rubinstein

Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live.

Anne Sweeney

I know what I don't want. I don't want to live through somebody else. To do what others expect me to do, be what they think I should be. I have to make my own choices, my own decisions. I have to control my own life, at least as much as any of us can

Kay Hooper

Japanese of my generation try to get through life without stepping on anyone's toes; in some ways that's unnatural and stressful. The yakuza are different: They live short lives but live and die on their own terms - it's exciting to portray that.

Takashi Miike

I could never live a nonproductive life and I feel that I have lived a productive life as far as I want to in terms of this company that I have for so many years.