Amanda Palmer Quotes

At my age...I'm going to do what I want and I haven't got time for anything else.

There are no limits to what you can create for you, because your ability to think is unlimited! But you cannot create other people's lives for them. You cannot think for them, and if you try to force your opinions on others you will only attract like forces to you. So let all others create the life they want.

I think when you mature, you realize that you really don't have to do anything you don't want to do or be represented in a way that doesn't suit you.

I haven't even had a life I could call my own, and you're ready to slot me into the grand design. Well, I don't think I want to go. I want to be my own design.

I think the way I want to think. I live the way I want to live.

I don't want people to be inspired or offended by what I do. If you determine your behavior by what [other people] want, you're screwed.

I feel the one sensible thing you can do is try to live in a way that pleases you. If you don't hurt anybody else, what you do is your own business.

I go where I'm stimulated. If I'm stimulated, I show up. As Mick Jagger sings: It's my life and I'll do what I want.

I am my own person. What I'm doing, I'm happy with it. I'm doing what I want to.

If individuals are rational, there is no need to protect them against their own choices.

You might as well go through life the way you want to. If what you want is to be engaged and forceful, to 'lean in,' well, do that.

Everybody has to make their own decisions about how they choose to behave.

The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self-dependence must give each individual the right, to choose his own surroundings.

I believe everybody got the right to live their own life the way they want to.

Many Americans abhor paternalism. They think that people should be able to go their own way, even if they end up in a ditch. When they run risks, even foolish ones, it isn't anybody's business that they do.

I do things my way. I don't do things to make people happy or appease them.

I feel like how I live my life is my own political statement.

The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket.

So the life I have made May seem wrong to you But, I've never been surer It's my life to ruin My own way.

Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.

Nobody can tell you what to do. No matter what they pay you. No matter what obligations you feel you owe them. Every second defines you. Be who you are, not who anyone else is, or who anyone else wants you to be.

I have the feeling I've always done what I wanted throughout my life.

You ain't got but one life. You ought to live it the way you want.

Hey No one makes me do anything. Not my family. Not your family...not even you.

A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs.