Andrew W.K. Quotes

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

You choose who you want to be.

You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying. -An-mei

I think people do have their own minds.

My choice is what I choose to be.

No man must encroach upon my province, nor I upon his. He may advise me, moderately and without pertinaciousness, but he must not expect to dictate to me. He may censure me freely and without reserve; but he should remember that I am to act by my deliberation and not his. I ought to exercise my talents for the benefit of others; but that exercise must be the fruit of my own conviction; no man must attempt to press me into the service.

You can't let anybody else tell you what your choices are. Sometimes they won't give you the right choice.

I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you.

I'll succeed,' Hazel promised. 'And Hecate? I'm not choosing one of your paths. I'm making my own.

A human being is a deciding being.

Everyone wants to be seen. Everyone wants to be heard. Everyone wants to be recognized as the person that they are and not a stereotype or an image.

I reject the idea that when young women make choices with which we disagree, they are acting without autonomy.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change.

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.

We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don't apologize.

Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.

When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.

I think that certainly my choices empower me.

Don't underestimate the people. Let them decide.

I'm in control of the positions that I allow myself to be in.

The implication is that this basic idea we have that we are controlled by our genes is false. It's an idea that turns us into victims. I'm saying we are the creators of our situation. The genes are merely the blueprints. We are the contractors, and we can adjust those blueprints. And we can even rewrite them.

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

The truth is, I could no more dictate her nature than she could dictate mine. Kinsey's happy as she is and she doesn't need to be rescued, improved, or saved.