Ray Charles Quotes

I'm not going to tell people how to live their life and I surely wouldn't tell people my life is the way you should be living. People get to choose what they do want to do with their life and I appreciated that.

Everybody has their thing. I think you can always do what you like.

My idea of a true feminist is a woman who feels free enough to do whatever she wants.

I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no?

To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.

You have to do what you want to do, and I genuinely believe that if you start interacting in the world that way that there is a respect in that.

If you like it, let it be, and if you don't please do the same.

Anybody, anywhere in the world, all they want is to be free, to choose what they want to do without having someone tell them how to do it.

I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that.

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

I want it to resonate: there's no rule for how to live your life. You can do things your own way.

Get out of people's way and let them be who they are. If they make a mistake, fine, that's on them.

Everybody has to choose his or her own way to climb a mountain. I don't give an opinion. But there needs to be enough room for others.

I believe nobody has the right to judge me as an athlete because of my decision to be with who I want. It is a personal decision, which should be respected.

You either respect people's liberties, or you don't.

I wish to live for myself. I should never want to be trapped.

What you perceive as "liberal" is my independence to choose what i do, with whom, and when. Moreover, it also means that i may choose not to do it, with anyone, ever.

She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do it.

Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.

No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.

I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.

He that has his chains knocked off, and the prison doors set open to him, is perfectly at liberty, because he may either go or stay, as he best likes; though his preference be determined to stay, by the darkness of the night, or illness of the weather, or want of other lodging.

Would you rather be right or free?

I'm a woman. I have a right to change my mind.