“They can do it. Just leave them alone. That's a lifestyle I don't want to touch.”
Richard Nixon (1913–1994) 37th President of the United States of America
1970s, They're Born That Way (1971)
Across the Night
Song lyrics, Diorama (2002)
“They can do it. Just leave them alone. That's a lifestyle I don't want to touch.”
Richard Nixon (1913–1994) 37th President of the United States of America
1970s, They're Born That Way (1971)
“I don't want to end up
In a room all alone
Don't want to end up someone
That I don't even know.”
Tom Petty (1950–2017) American musician
King's Highway
Lyrics, Into The Great Wide Open (1991)
“Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here.”
Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon
Source: Flowers for Algernon
Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist
Katniss Everdeen, p. 297
The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games (2008)
Olaf Stapledon book Sirius
Source: Sirius (1944), Chapter VI Birth-pangs of a Personality
“I don't want to be your friend,
I just want to be your lover.”
Thom Yorke (1968) English musician, philanthropist and singer-songwriter
House of Cards
Lyrics, In Rainbows (2007)
“I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.”
Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist
Source: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
“Please — please don't kill me — I don't want to die. I just want to have my baby.”
Sharon Tate (1943–1969) actress, victim of murder by Charles Manson followers
Court testimony of Virginia Graham as to what her confessed murderer Susan Atkins (aka Sadie Mae Glutz) had said were among her last words (9 August 1969). Atkins said she responded to this with: "Look, bitch, you might as well face it right now, you're going to die, and I don't feel a thing behind it."
“It's not that I want you to go, it's just that I don't want you to stay." - China Sorrows -”
Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer
Source: Mortal Coil
“I don't want to create a revolution — I just want to create a few more films.”
Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) British comic actor and filmmaker
In response to journalist for comments on United States Attorney-General's announcement to revoke his re-entry visa, Cherbourg, England, as quoted in "Mr. Chaplin's Defense", The Guardian (23 September 1952)
Context: I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That is all the politics I have. On the other hand I am not a super-patriot. Super-patriotism leads to Hitlerism — and we've had our lesson there. I don't want to create a revolution — I just want to create a few more films.