Quotes About Rebellion

I just have to go against the grain. I mean, I can be objective and do what I need to do, handle my everyday living, follow directions, etc. But there's something that's always been attracted to that taboo. It's been like that since I was a child.

I always have been excited by taboo things, especially growing up, going to Catholic school.

When something's taboo, the kids get a sense where they want to do it because it's taboo.

No insurrection bred out of desperation can be quelled by strong-arm tactics.

There's an expression in Persian, 'to play with the lion's tail.' I wasn't what Iranian society wanted me to be - a good girl. I played with the lion's tail.

Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

You got to take a deep breath and give up. The system is rigged against you.

I was a brat. It was crazy, I was very picky. In other words, I didn't take advantage of what was happening.

I was taken out of school by my dad when I was 11 and lived in Mexico City, then later in Paris. I went with him to excavate in Bolivia and Peru. I never finished high school. I was a straight F student anyway. My father admitted to me later that he'd thought I would come to no good.

Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.

It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

Growing up in the suburbs, I used to listen to punk rock, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday. And no one from my high school listened to it.

Like everbody, I'm addicted to 'The Handmaid's Tale.'

Never short of guns and guerrillas, Afghanistan has proven fertile ground for a host of insurgent groups in addition to the Taliban.

When people talk about the '60s I never think that was me there. It was me and I was in it, but I was never enamoured with all that. It's supposed to be sex and drugs and rock and roll and I'm not really like that. I've never really seen the Rolling Stones as anything.

I don't like the idea of talking down to kids. I think I was talked down to, and you rebel against that.

The bands that were big in '77, like the Clash and the Sex Pistols and Talking Heads, I got into them in the early '80s. And it changed my life. It got into my DNA.

What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.

Ronnie Spector's hair was taller and meaner and scarier than all four Shangri-La's combined, plus the drummer from the Honeycombs. You just know her rat-tail comb was a switchblade.

I don't know if I miss it per se, but I do miss the fact that there just doesn't seem to be any rock 'n' roll out there anyplace. Everything does seem kind of tame. It's even hard in Manhattan to go out and find a good band to go see.

I feel like rock n' roll has become very tame.

We can't be tamed at all. We've never been that kind of group. We always used to talk about how our image was as big as our sound.

I don't take such good care of my skin; my mom kills me about it... I sit in the sun so much. I love a tan.

I was very young when I was using fake tan and I didn't care.