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“I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.”

“I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet

“I don't know what I want, but I want it NOW!”
prescient of the Sex Pistols: "I don't know what I want but I know how to get it."
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1978)

Responding to a press conference question as to whether he was a "card-carrying" member of the Black Muslims, as quoted in The New York Times (27 February 1964) http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F4091EF7355D17738DDDAE0A94DA405B848AF1D3; also in Sports Illustrated (9 March 1964).
Context: I believe in Allah and in peace. I don't try to move into white neighborhoods. I don't want to marry a white woman. I was baptized when I was twelve, but I didn't know what I was doing. I'm not a Christian anymore. I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be... I'm free to be what I want.

Cameron, Keith (March 28, 2003), "The sweetheart deal" http://www.theguardian.com/music/2003/mar/29/artsfeatures.popandrock. The Guardian. Retrieved December 15, 2014.

“I don't know if it's what you want, but it's what you get.”
[10502@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990

“Don't tell me what I'm doing; I don't want to know.”