“All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself”
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http://www.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/2005-06-02-tyson-saraceno_x.htm?csp=34
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Frank Sinatra (1915–1998) American singer and film actor
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“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)