“If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don't want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it, too. I want them to be able to do whatever they want around me.”
            Variant: I don't want to be somebody's crush. if somebody likes me, i want them to like the real me, not what they think i am. And i don't want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so i can feel it too. - Sam 
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
        
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                        As quoted in "Do you really want to be in our tribe?" in The Telegraph (1 March 2005) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/01/03/ftribe03.xml&page=1
 
                            
                        
                        
                        “I don't want you fellows sitting around asking me what to do. I want you to tell me what to do.”
To his staffers, as quoted in General of the Army : George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman (1991) by Ed Cray, p. 591
 
                            
                        
                        
                        “I just don't want them to change me, if I'm going to die I still want to be me.”
                                        
                                        Variant: They don't own me. If I'm gonna die, I wanna still be me. 
Source: The Hunger Games
                                    
 
                            
                        
                        
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                        “It is not a woman I want — it is all women. And I seek for them in those around me, one by one…”
                                        
                                        As translated by John Rodker <!-- p. 72 --> 
The Inferno (1917) 
Context: Moving in both directions, the street is full of dresses which sway, offering themselves airily, the skirts lifting; dresses which lift and yet do not lift.
In the tall and narrow shop mirror I see myself approaching, rather pale and heavy-eyed. It is not a woman I want — it is all women. And I seek for them in those around me, one by one...
                                    
 
        
     
                             
                            