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Quotes About Defiance

A name? Oh, Jesus Christ. Ah, God, I've been called by a million names all my life. I don't want a name. I'm better off with a grunt or a groan for a name.
~ Bernardo Bertolucci
If people tell me something is impossible, I just want to prove that. I want to know that that's for certain. I don't want to not do something because someone says I can't.
~ Chris Gethard
It's amazing the gymnastics you can do when you don't want to do something. How you can force yourself against all the forces of nature. I threw myself backward.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
As soon as someone I don't respect tells me I can't do something, it just makes me want to do it even more.
~ Kenneth Branagh
There's only one reason why a character drinks: to seek confrontation. To fight for what they want in ways normally denied them.
~ Michael Shurtleff
If stealing a few saltshakers was wrong I didn't want to be right.
~ Paul Neilan
How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group?
~ Saul Bellow
When people get tired they will say, "Enough is enough. If you want to kill us all, you can kill us all."
~ Thomas Mapfumo
Fit in where you don't: make your own space..be different..don't give in. Exist somewhere you're not suppose to, or where you don't want to. Be your own men; do what you want, and don't hurt anybdoy
~ Rick Bass
You can do pretty much anything you want in this world, and it's not all that difficult - you just have to ignore the people who tell you that you need to go this way, and it's the only way.
~ Aaron Rose
The hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be--
~ e. e. cummings
Whenever somebody tells me they want me to stop singing, I'm gone.
~ Mavis Staples
I'm definitely gonna be the People's champion ... but I just ain't gonna be the champ the way you want me to be the champ. I'm gonna be the champ the way I wanna be.
~ Muhammad Ali
Anyone fighting for freedom does not want to totally lose their freedom.
~ Ai Weiwei
When someone asks me, 'What do you do?' under my breath I want to say, 'Ask my f--king bank account what I do,'
~ Kim Kardashian
Do not tell me what I can and cannot do. I'll be as asian as I want to (Stretches his eyes in a racist manner).
~ Thom Yorke
You can bite me if you want. I want you to.
~ Amanda Hocking
Better off dead than giving in; not taking what you want.
~ Carol Ann Duffy
I don't behave the way people necessarily want me to, but I tried behaving that other way for a short period of time and it didn't take.
~ Jessa Crispin
And ordering me around is exactly the wrong way to make me do what you want.
~ Lilith Saintcrow
Do you want me crucified for my profanity?
~ Ozzy Osbourne
Sometimes you just have to reach out and grab what you want, even when they tell you not to. This is something that I've struggled with my whole life long.
~ Rebecca Wells
You want me to do what? What part of stupid crawled up your sphincter and died?" – Caleb
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
If you tell me I can't have something then that just makes me want it more.
~ Anna Benson