“Ever since I was a child I never wanted to be anything else but a soldier.”
Source: The Fighting Pattons (1997) by Brian M. Sobel, p. 21
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“I never tried to prove anything to someone else. I wanted to prove something to myself.”
Variant: And now I'm looking at you, he said, and you're asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything ever has.
Source: City of Glass
“I never did anything according to what anyone else wanted. That's why I think I am happy.”
Parade interview (2009)
Context: I never did anything according to what anyone else wanted. That's why I think I am happy. I do everything 100% — even my stupidest missteps. I know when I'm getting ready to mess up, I'm going to do it full-on.
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Source: A Million Little Pieces (2003)
“Since then I never pay attention to anything by "experts". I calculate everything myself.”
After having been led astray on neutron-proton coupling by reports of "beta-decay experts".
Part 5: "The World of One Physicist", "The 7 Percent Solution", p. 255
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (1985)
Source: The White Rose (1985), Chapter 12, “The Plain of Fear” (p. 506)
“Decorative and edifying. That is what I want art to be before anything else.”
as cited on Wikipedia: Maurice Denis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Denis - reference [41]
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