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Quotes About Rebellion

I looked at what adults were doing and how they wanted to earn money, and I really didn't want to do that. I wanted to go away.
~ Robert Wyatt
All right, two dozen house specials. Any chance one of you might want to live dangerously and try a vegetable? (Aimee) Do we look like rabbits to you? (Fury)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Leaving stage with a bloody scalp, it's rock & roll, I guess, but I want some hair at the end of the tour.
~ Taylor Momsen
I've been known to throw watermelons, backstage, at people who are giving me news I don't want to hear. But I never aim for the head.
~ Tori Amos
What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.
~ Urs Fischer
Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.
~ Val Kilmer
Poets can't worry about popularity since loving life and humanity involves saying what some people don't want to hear.
~ Vanna Bonta
I'm an audience member first. My inspiration is still based on hunger. Often, when people try to tell me "nobody wants that story; I'm like bullshit because I want it."
~ Victoria Mahoney
You are born and then you die, but in between you can do anything you want. It's society that creates rules for us, but you can break out of that.
~ Zola Jesus
Girls liking bad boys is the cookie jar complex. When somebody tells you you can't have a cookie, you want a cookie. But I live in a bad-boy world, artistically. All the jazz boys are bad boys.
~ Harry Connick, Jr.
I love playing someone who just skates by and does anything she wants.
~ Holland Taylor
Is there any chance you'd overthrow the tyrannical Beast Lord and his psychotic consort?" "Yeah, I want a vacation." -Kate & Curran to Jim
~ Ilona Andrews
I gave him my hard stare. "You're a control freak and I fight all authority. And you want us to mate?" A wicked spark lit his eyes. "Many, many times.
~ Ilona Andrews
I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash.
~ J. D. Salinger
Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.
~ J. J. Abrams
If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.
~ Jackie Chan
People want somebody to be a daredevil, even if they're not going to be a daredevil themselves.
~ James Wolcott
When you're a kid and you see gangsters living the life, you kind of want to be like that.
~ Jaume Collet-Serra
Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Like most kids, you don't want to do what your folks want you to do. You've got your own thing.
~ Jeff Bridges
I remember when I was a kid, with the acting thing, I resented it because, you know, you don't want to do what your parents want you to do.
~ Jeff Bridges
It's good to be employable, but I hope to show the truth. The paintings seem true because nobody wants me to do them.
~ Jenny Holzer
I think there's a phenomenon of people who want to be around something that seems "dangerous." It makes them feel more real.
~ Jerry Stahl
The punk scene in NY was so gritty and nihilistic & I was like ooh I want to do that
~ Jessica Hagedorn