Ronnie Spector Quotes

If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

If people don't want to go to the picture, nobody can stop them.

Whatever you feel is right, whether that's moving to a new club or staying to fight for a position, everyone has a right to do what they want to do.

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

It is necessary that we stop, once for all, this ignorant meddling with other people's business. Each individual must be left free to follow his own path.

The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will.

One thing I've often thought is that I never want to tell anybody else what to do. It's hard enough to figure out what I want to do.

He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being.

It is mine to give to whom I will, like my heart.

Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an inalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human.

I believe very firmly in the principle of free agency - people making their own decisions and doing what they think is right.

No one else can want for me. No one can substitute his act of will for mine. It does sometimes happen that someone very much wants me to want what he wants. This is the moment when the impassable frontier between him and me, which is drawn by free will, becomes most obvious. I may not want that which he wants me to want - and in this precisely I am incommunicabilis. I am, and I must be, independent in my actions. All human relationships are posited on this fact.

I don't turn to anyone for advice. I do what I want.

Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them. In other words, man is ultimately self-determining. Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.

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

We can choose, you know, we ain't no amoeba.

You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.

Those who taught you were wrong. I have never set down a "right" or "wrong," a "do" or a "don't." To do so would be to strip you completely of your greatest gift - the opportunity to do as you please.

All men are created equal. It is what you do from there that makes the difference. We are all free agents in life. We make our own decisions. We control our own destiny.

I cannot go and tell women what to wear and what not to wear; you have to decide on your own.

As if one could do what one wanted with one's own body!

I'm not one of those radical believers that everybody has to be forced to do one thing.

I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.

I don't think you play for other people's expectations, you know. You don't go and become a lawyer because your mother or father want you to, you don't become a coach because somebody wants you to.