Felipe Massa Quotes

Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.

Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people.

I'm still very much Kate.

Driving, for me, means power and freedom. The feeling that I can go anywhere I want at any time is exhilarating.

Running is the one part of my life in which I fundamentally feel like the observer instead of the observed.

When I spend a lot of time in New York, or somewhere when I don't have a car, I miss that mobility and freedom that you have when you have a car. You don't have to rely on anyone else.

I want to be myself.

Sometimes I drive, and sometimes I'm driven.

Individuality is very important for a full human life.

There is truth in the high opinion that in so far as a man conforms, he ceases to exist.

I'm history! No, I'm mythology! Nah, I don't care what I am, I'm free!

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man, but not another.

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.

With all the things that you could be, you never could learn how to be me.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

I love my father, but I have worked to develop a separate and distinct identity in different projects I have worked on.

People reach an age... where somebody else's platform is no longer yours.

Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.

I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.

Growing up in the '50s and being in the '60s, in that revolutionary time space, I thought freedom was what I was looking for. Slowly but surely, it became clear that the last thing I was interested in was freedom. Because if you're going to be free, you have to be free from something.

Once I got my driver's license everybody treated me like I was an adult.

I did, I'd say, at least about 80 percent of the rest of the driving, and I had the time of my life.

Having grown up in Bombay, from the day you're born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.

You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.

Everything I write has to be connected to my life. One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women.