Nicholas Negroponte (1943) American computer scientist
Being Nicholas, The Wired Interview by Thomas A. Bass http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/nn/bd1101bn.htm
Bloomberg Business interview (2014)
Nicholas Negroponte (1943) American computer scientist
Being Nicholas, The Wired Interview by Thomas A. Bass http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/nn/bd1101bn.htm
“I wanted to be free. I wanted to express desires on my own, to shape my own little life.”
Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952) Soviet diplomat
The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman (1926)
“I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.”
Diane Ackerman (1948) Author, poet, naturalist
On Extended Wings (1985)
“I want to make my own life a masterpiece.”
Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) Duce and President of the Council of Ministers of Italy. Leader of the National Fascist Party and subsequen…
Talks with Mussolini (1932), quoting earlier remarks <br class="br">As quoted in " Duce (1922-42)" in TIME magazine (2 August 1943) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,777927-4,00.html <br class="br">1930s <br class="br">Variant: I shall make my own life a masterpiece.
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) American writer
“The Field of Vision” p. 243 (originally published in Galaxy, October 1973)
Short fiction, The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (1975)
“I'd sell my soul to have you. In my whole life, you'll always be what I wanted most."
~ Hardy Cates”
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Sugar Daddy
André Breton (1896–1966) French writer
Le Manifeste du Surréalisme, Andre Breton (Manifesto of Surrealism; 1924)
Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer
Source: How to Kill a Rock Star