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Quotes About Self-expression

I feel like there are so many people I admire for so many reasons that I can't look at one person's life and say, "I want that life." I want to make my own history.
~ Blake Lively
You want to live the dream? You do what you want on your terms.
~ Courtney Love
I have a very great fear of love. It is so personal. Let each bird fly with its own wings, and each fish swim its own course.--Morning brings more than love. And I want to be true to the morning.
~ D. H. Lawrence
I gave up that idea of trying to make music that I thought other people would want. I just made music for myself and music for people that I knew.
~ Daniel Powter
I think a lot of people are afraid of freedom. They want their lives to be controlled, to be put into a box... Why should someone put a limit on how much fun I can have, how much I can accomplish?
~ Drew Carey
The worst thing to me would be that you put on the face you think people want to see, and then they don't like it and you think, Would they have liked the real me?
~ Elizabeth Edwards
People want to put you in the box, and you just have to fight past their preconceived notions.
~ Gina Carano
You don't need anyone's permission to be exactly who you want to be
~ Hayley Williams
The reason I wanted to be an actor is that I don't want to play me for the rest of my life and make money out of that.
~ James D'arcy
I like my nuts," Mooner said. "I don't want them cut off. I'd be, like, nutless then.
~ Janet Evanovich
You give yourself permission to be the person you want to be, the artist you want to be, no matter what your circumstances!
~ Jill Eikenberry
People let their frustrations out on me. I love Kanye West. They say the opposite of that. But I'm not going to say that. I'm only going to say what I'm want to put into the universe.
~ Kanye West
I don't really know anything about fashion, I just kind of wing it and do what I want at the time.
~ Keiynan Lonsdale
You can't stop my voice cause You don't own my life but Do what you want (with my body)
~ Lady Gaga
Bruce Lee only played himself. Chuck Norris is a martial artist that does acting. I want to be an actor that does martial arts.
~ Leo Howard
Be true to yourself. But that's something everyone says and no one means. No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like.
~ Marie Lu
Success is about making your life a special version of unique that fits who you are - not what other people want you to be.
~ Mark Cuban
When I wear jeans I want to look like a man, not a child.
~ Martin Freeman
People are like, "Oh, I want to make your eyes almond." I don't have almond eyes! Why are you trying to change my eye shape?
~ Miley Cyrus
Alcohol has never caused anyone to do something they didn't want to do. It only enables them to do what they've always wanted but have instead repressed.
~ Neil Strauss
The great difficulty is that you cannot be nice. If you want to take back the power, you have to behave in ways that are not conforming and will not be about pleasing other people.
~ Rachel Holmes
I frankly admit to not knowing who I am. This is why I refuse to buy clothes that will tell people who I want them to think I am.
~ Russell Baker
I live my life with a lot of integrity based on what I want for my life and who I am.
~ Shailene Woodley
Call yourself and define your relationship to your chair the way you want to, or your disability the way you want to.
~ Zach Anner