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Quotes About Rebellion

Ma-niac, Ma-niac He's so cool Ma-niac, Ma-niac Don't go to school Runs all night Runs all right Ma-niac, Ma-niac Kissed a bull!
~ Jerry Spinelli
It was a rebellion she led, a rebellion for rather than against.
~ Jerry Spinelli
she turned left when everyone else turned right.
~ Jerry Spinelli
Unfortunately, he chose to put Arnold down at the one spot in town as bad as Finsterwald's backyard—namely, Finsterwald's front steps. When Arnold came to and discovered this, he took off like a horsefly from a swatter. As the stupefied high-schoolers were leaving the scene, they looked back. They saw the kid, cool times ten, stretch out on the forbidden steps and open his book to read. 6 About an hour later Mrs.
~ Jerry Spinelli
What's the matter with you? Huh? Huh?' 'Why can't you be normal?' 'Why do you wanna be so different?
~ Jerry Spinelli
but my rather said no way was he going
~ Jerry Spinelli
The thing is, all my heroes were junkies. Lenny Bruce, Keith Richards, William Burroughs, Miles Davis, Hubert Selby, Jr... These guys were cool. They were committed. They would not have been caught dead doing an ALF episode.
~ Jerry Stahl
Then we'll make a deal, you and me. We'll do and say exactly what we mean. And to hell with what anyone thinks about it. If we want to smoke, we'll smoke, if we want to swear, we'll swear. How does that sound?
~ Jess Walter
the scramble to get higher, to be seen, the cycle of creation and rebellion, everyone assuming they were saying something new or doing something new, something profound--when the truth was tat it had all been done a million billion times.
~ Jess Walter
the scramble to get higher, to be seen, the cycle of creation and rebellion, everyone assuming they were saying something new or doing something new, something profound—when the truth was that it had all been done a million billion times.
~ Jess Walter
We are not goddamn statistics. We will never be. We are the exception, and we are exceptional. Got it?
~ Jessica Park
I don't do my work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life.
~ Jhonen Vasquez
But I couldn't draw as fast as she requested. Thus, I tried to create the worst abomination of a comic that I could, so as to make her not want comics anymore. That abomination, my friends, was Happy Noodle Boy.
~ Jhonen Vasquez
At night, on the other hand, I already know that I'm not going to get any sleep in this room they've stuck me in. It's the kind of room that makes me hate the world. I'd toss all this stuff out the window, if I could. I might even toss myself out. I'm on the twelfth floor. But these windows don't open.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
A lot of people who work for WikiLeaks have the same instinct as me: If you are pushed you push back.
~ Julian Assange
Revolution by its nature can not be overly programmed or directed. There are so many forces at work that you don't know where and how it all ends.
~ Kofi Annan
The devil finds work for idle hands to do. Better to reign in the hell than serve in heaven. We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
I don't wear ties to work. And I don't shave.
~ Mark T Bertolini
Our first work must be the annihilation of everything as it now exists.
~ Mikhail Bakunin
You can't force your child to go to bed. Well, you can, but it doesn't work.
~ Monica Potter
I think in some ways - only in some ways - but in some ways, rock and roll has let me down. It really doesn't leave you a way to grow old gracefully and continue to work.
~ Neil Young
When you do controversial work, you're going to upset a certain amount of people.
~ Patti Smith
To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection
~ Raoul Vaneigem
I don't give a damn if you like Blackbeard. I don't care if you think he is an absolute despot. Do you believe me? If you do, I've done my work.
~ Ray Stevenson