Top 100 Do What They Want Quotes
#1. The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.
Walter Darby Bannard
#2. Certainly people in empty places feel they have the right to do what they want to their property and don't necessarily see the effect of their pollution or pesticides on others. But Texans have an appreciation for water problems and are very aware of the droughts.
Gail Collins
#3. Once anyone who has a sense of humor can do what they want, they want to do funny bits as much as possible.
Gavin McInnes
#4. One often has to do what they have to do in order to do what they want to do; however if you only do what you want to do then you will never do what you have to do!
C. Moorer
#5. I want people to do what they want to do because when they feel comfortable it seems to translate better on screen. It is when you put people in a straitjacket that it doesn't seem to translate very well at all. The individuals I work with are usually people I know.
Steve McQueen
#6. I let everyone have [the] space to do what they want, but I think I'm still a bit of a perfectionist.
Gustav Ejstes
#7. The problem with freedom is that when people have it, they do what they want to.
David Burr Gerrard
#8. Being wealthy gives them the option to live what author/philosopher Ayn Rand called "an unrestricted existence." This means having the ability to do what they want, when they want, with whom they want, for as long as they want, without limitations.
Steve Siebold
#9. ...you make your own way in life. Sometimes that's hard for people to love, when they can't make you do what they want you to.
Brooklyn James
#10. People can do whatever they want to, but I'm more pro-hetero. I'm not knocking it - I have friends that are gay. It's just that it's not my cup of tea, l guess. That's all. People can do what they want.
Axl Rose
#11. I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business.
Juliana Hatfield
#12. To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do; to most it means not to do what they do not want to do. It is perhaps true that those who can grow will feel free under any condition.
Eric Hoffer
#13. They think because I'm small, they can do what they want to do to me. But I'm not weak. If I lower my shoulder and they lower they're shoulder, they're going to go down.
Michael Johnson
#14. I will go where the Lord and the leaders of His Church want me to go, I will do what they want me to do, I will teach what they want me to teach, and I will strive to become what I should and must become.
David A. Bednar
#15. Headstrong is just a word, Katie - a word others call you when you don't do what they want.
Jennifer Donnelly
#16. When you're lonely and blacking out in strange places, you let other lonely people do what they want to you. You call it free love.
Melissa Broder
#17. Footballers nowadays are controlling their image through their own Facebook page so its not the club that controls them anymore, they do what they want at anytime.
Emmanuel Petit
#18. It's 2014, and the fact that anybody has to fight for the right to do what they want to do with their body in a safe and responsible way is infuriating.
Jenny Slate
#19. Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
Anne Carson
#20. Real people do what they want ... not what they can.
Christian Coma
#21. When people ask for advice they very rarely want your advice and will go ahead and do what they want to do anyway, no matter what you say. That applied in every sort of case; it was a human truth of universal application, but one which most people knew little or nothing about.
Alexander McCall Smith
#22. You want to sub, baby, but you've got no idea what it means. When you give someone the power to do what they want to you, you also give them the responsibility of keeping you safe. Otherwise, you can't ever really give in and let go.
Amelia C. Gormley
#23. Boys do what they want to do, Men do what they need to do,
Norm Parker
#24. Most Americans take their freedom very seriously, but they don't realize that not everyone is free. The repressed are not free to do what they want. That's what 'Star-Crossed' was all about for me.
Johnathon Schaech
#25. I think people should be able to do what they want to do.
Jonathan Davis
#26. When people don't do what they want, they don't know what to do.
Marty Rubin
#27. The way I see it people don't do what they want to do often enough. They just do some alternative which they'd kind of like to do, which isn't the same thing at all, and as a result that thing isn't enough and they end up depressed and annoyed with everyone else around them.
Will Davis
#28. There are many documentary filmmakers who have a tough time because they don't really get what they need to do what they want. There are so many people with good visions that should be encouraged and helped. And they will deliver, I'm sure.
Max Von Sydow
#29. It's always been impressive to me when someone can really do what they want onstage. The audience has confidence in the performer and the performer has confidence in the crowd.
Henry Rollins
#30. Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to,
when all they need is one reason why they can
Martha Graham
#31. The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.
Steve Ballmer
#32. Mom always told me, "People will do what they want to do-always. If you don't like how someone is acting or what they are doing, no matter how much you scream yell or cry, you won't change them unless they really want to change.
Alison Caiola
#33. I love Woody Allen. He's very clever, always thinking, and he's great with actors. He lets actors do what they want to do and occasionally he'll give them a specific kind of direction.
Vilmos Zsigmond
#34. All these prohibitions old people think up. I think people should be free to do what they want unless it's hurting someone else.
John Updike
#35. The white folks like for us to be religious, then they can do what they want to with us.
Richard Wright
#36. I think people ought to do what they want to do, what else are they alive for?
James Baldwin
#37. Any woman that is willing to take control of their life and do what they want to do to make their living, I have a lot of respect for.
Kristen Renton
#38. Boys get to do what they want in this world, and girls do not.
L.A. Meyer
#39. I think to each its own, if nobody is hurting anybody-who cares? Everyone should be able to do what they want and be happy. Who you love is who you love. That's the way I see it
Jennifer Hudson
#40. Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many.
Linus Torvalds
#41. Children will learn to do what they want to learn to do.
Sugata Mitra
#42. I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair.
Clint Eastwood
#43. The consciousness and life force do what they want ...
one minute they put energy to repairing the damaged wing of a butterfly
and the next minute they send a whole town crushing with tremendous force ...
who can work it out?
Mooji
#44. People want more and more leisure time, which means the freedom to do what they want to do, not what they have to do, and as we get richer and richer, more and more people will be able to afford that.
Robert Fogel
#45. Any director or writer or artist has the right to do what they want to do - freedom of expression is something I celebrate.
Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
#46. I believe in freedom of religion and freedom of choice and everybody do what they want to do. I don't wish to bring my beliefs onto other people.
Jim "Dandy" Mangrum
#47. I'm sick of all the pressure. I'm sick of feeling like I'll ruin all their happiness if I don't do what they want me to do.
Holly Bourne
#48. It is a great tool of dictators and tyrants, who want to get masses of people to do what they want, to make sure there are no libraries...The fact that there was no public library in Rwanda is one reason why genocide was possible.
Stephen Kinzer
#49. The society and surroundings pressures us to do what they want us to do and be what they want us to be
Sunday Adelaja
#50. People have to do what they want to do.
J Mascis
#51. Pride puffs one up with a false sense of independence. Proud people always feel that they can live independently from God and from other people. Proud people feel entitled to do what they want when they want to.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#52. I don't like being under someone elses thumb. I'm very supportive of other female artists, especially those trying to make their own statement ... trying to do what they want instead of being someone else's Barbie doll.
Irene Cara
#53. You can't change old people. Unlike middle-aged people, they do what they want.
Kathy Acker
#54. Those who pursue a worldy life - who try to get others to do what they want, to peform for them, who use and abuse in the name of their own happiness - are miserable.
Frederick Lenz
#55. Girls are funny. If they fall for you, they do what they want - their mothers be damned.
Michael Schmicker
#56. But a long time ago I made me a rule: I let people do what they want to do.
Louis L'Amour
#57. Do what you really want to do. Don't play their game! Don't do what they want. Find your own way.
Johnny Depp
#58. Is the world really a better place now that nothing is considered bad? People just do what they want, with anyone. How is that different from what animals do in the wild?
Diana Palmer
#59. I understand how to read people, and nurture them and guide them, and let them be free to do what they want to do.
Courteney Cox
#60. Jill, of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to do, every time.
Robert A. Heinlein
#61. Every father loves their children. I love my two sons very dearly. The only thing that is important to me is that they do what they want to do. They shouldn't feel a sense of obligation.
Kerry Stokes
#62. When is it enough?" he asked. "We're told to let go of the ones that don't want help. How long do we try before we step back and let them do what they want? Before it's hurting everyone else around you to keep that person around?
C.L.Stone
#63. If two people want to get married, it's their prerogative - we hope. Everybody should be able to do what they want to do and be in the pursuit of happiness
Mariah Carey
#64. I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.
Jack Nicholson
#65. The parent gives the child a new car, money. They know the child wants these things and has to do what they want; otherwise, they withdraw the favors - manipulation, domination, no happiness, psychic sickness.
Frederick Lenz
#66. It's a new medium, it's a universal medium and it's not itself a medium which inherently makes people do good things, or bad things. It allows people to do what they want to do more efficiently.
Tim Berners-Lee
#67. Hollywood would much prefer the author be dead, so that they can buy the book and do what they want to do with it.
Michael Lewis
#68. I think that the reason why 'Goats' is called 'Goats' is because you can't give direction to goats. They do what they want. That's the point of this film.
Graham Phillips
#69. Boys do what they can; men do what they want
Project Pat
#70. I guess I'm adaptable. You know, I turn up at work and [photographers] can kind of do what they want with me, really.
Kate Moss
#71. If you look at some of the smaller capital markets in Asia, when they want funding, they either come here to Hong Kong or they go to California, the mecca of the Internet, because they can capture the liquidity and then move on and do what they want to do, which is develop a business.
Richard Li
#72. People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is.
Charles Stanley
#73. These hips have never been enslaved, they go where they want to go they do what they want to do. these hips are mighty hips. these hips are magic hips
Lucille Clifton
#74. Maybe I'll just write books. I'd like to make another movie, but I don't want to go back and [do] what they want you to do, to make it for a million dollars. I did that. I don't need a lot, but I need what I used to get, and they don't give you that anymore.
John Waters
#75. The important task of government, you see, is to keep conditions stable, to hold down disturbances and unrest, to maintain itself, and the best way to do that is to give everybody the opportunity to do what they want - except change things.
James Edwin Gunn
#76. It's nice to have a lot of people in the field. Independent, third party, Libertarian, Reform and other party candidates can do what they want to do. I welcome them to the race.
John Murray
#77. If you live with a single parent, you don't see compromise. You witness a grown person living in a world where they do what they want to do. When you are raised by two parents, you are constantly watching compromise take place. Just by observing that, it made me a better person.
Chris Rock
#78. Unless you have great parents or some inspirational teacher from a movie that pushes you to follow your dreams, you can't expect a kid to be smart enough to realize they can do what they want with their life before they've been pushed through the school system into having an average life.
Dan Howell
#79. Leaders don't do what they WANT to do;they do whatever is necessary.
Rick Warren
#80. Who cares if virtually the entire world views Obama's drone attacks as unjustified and wrong? Who cares if the Muslim world continues to seethe with anti-American animus as a result of this aggression? Empires do what they want.
Glenn Greenwald
#81. People want to do good things, they just need a prod sometimes, and what Twitter and other technologies that connect people are showing us is that if you make it a little easier for people then you will enable them to do what they want to do, to help people out, to form groups and do good.
Evan Williams
#82. I don't think that running a fashion and lifestyle channel like Trendz is against RSS policy. But if it is, then it's up to them to do what they want.
Subhash Chandra
#83. Deep down, everybody wants to do what they want to be doing. They just feel that they can't.
Antony Garrett Lisi
#84. Men find it more difficult than women to be alone. They function better with someone in their lives. Being married, they are rooted, so they feel safe to go and do what they want to do.
Pattie Boyd
#85. Because I figure there's two kinds of people in the world. The ones who do everything that's laid out for them, the supposed-tos, and then there's the people that look above it and do what they want to do. I prefer the latter, but maybe that's just me. A not-supposed to.
Margaux Froley
#86. Here inside, everyone can say what they like, do what they want, without being criticized. After all, they're in a mental hospital.
Paulo Coelho
#87. The ultimate function of art is to make men do what they want to do, as it is to make them recognize what they know.
Maurice Blondel
#88. Good writing happens when human beings follow particular steps to take control of their sentences-to make their words do what they want them to do.
Ralph Fletcher
#89. People are hypocrites. If you ask them what they want to see on TV, they'll tell you they want better quality programming. And then what do they watch? 'Gilligan's Island.'
Johnny Carson
#90. What are they going to do about it?"
"So far? Get drunk. Yell at each other or at us. Design theoretical judicial systems. Most of them seem to want the whole thing to just go away sot hey can get on with their research."
Murtry chuckled. "God bless the eggheads.
James S.A. Corey
#91. If You don't give readers what they want, they'll be mad at you. If you give them what they do want, they'll be even more mad at you.
Cassandra Clare
#92. The thing is, what I'm tryin' to say is -
they do get on a lot better without me, I can't help them any. They ain't mean. They buy me everything I want, but it's now - you've-got-it-go-play-with-it. You've got a roomful of things. I-got-you-that-book-so-go-read-it.
Harper Lee
#93. That's what they do, psychopaths. They figure out your language, your currency, your needs, your dreams and fears. Then they figure out how to use those things to get what they want from you. Most
Lisa Unger
#94. Every white person in this country-and I do not care what he or she says-knows one thing. They may not know, as they put, "what I want",but they know they would not like to be black here.
If they know that, then they know everything they need to know, and whatever else they say is a lie.
James Baldwin
#95. But thats not love, he thought, thats not what she wants, nor what any of them want, they do not want you to find yourself in them, they want instead that you should lose yourself in them. And yet, he thought, they are always trying to find themselves in you.
James Jones
#96. I want to read about a character doing something fairly quiet where I can picture who the character is, and what their attitude towards the world is - which I'm a lot more interested in than what they do under the pressure of a gunfight.
Samuel R. Delany
#97. I don't see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, 'I'ma do that,' and they do it. That's it. There's no scientifical process.
Kevin Hart
#98. The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
Abbie Hoffman
#99. Public education is a good foundation on which to build a better life for each of us. And if we want to prove to these children who never made the mess in the first place that education is worth the trouble, our schools have to inspire them so they can do what they ought to do.
Bill Cosby
#100. People want me to be funny all the time. They think I'm being funny no matter what I say or do and that's not the case.
Christopher Guest
