Corliss Lamont Quotes

I always had that yearning, that hunger, to one day be independent and be my own person and build my own world. The most fulfilling thing is to live a life where you have freedom.

I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

We don't want power, we don't want to be congressmen, bankers, we want to be ourselves.

The thing that has never changed is I do what I want to do. If I can't do what I want to do, I don't want to do it.

I'm just going to live my life the way I want to.

I'm just living my life the way I want to. I have the freedom to do that.

I want to be free to do what I right for me.

Let LeBron be LeBron.

I firmly believe in individual liberty more than anything else. And that you have to live the life you want for yourself.

I do what I do. I live my life the way I've been living it.

Either I choose to behave or live a life of someone else, or I choose to be myself and live the life the way I want.

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.

The freedom from something is not true freedom. The freedom to do anything you want to do is also not the freedom I am talking about. My vision of freedom is to be yourself.

No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?

I was kind of raised with the suggestion that I had a duty to do; that life was real, life was earnest. And I hated that, actually. I needed to be liberated, to be told that I could live the life that I wanted to live; that I didn't need a job, or to be shouted at; that I could be myself; that I could be happy.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

I'm not going to become anybody I don't want to become.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

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

I don't live on other people's terms.

No one owns you. One hundred per cent of the stock in your personal corporation belongs to you.

It's important for me to be free and know I'm acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that's important. You want to be your own person.

I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.

Freedom is a unique concept that everyone interprets differently.