Quotes About Rebellion

You could say that my life since has been a sustained act of luxurious rebellion.

Do what you want and dont follow any rules. Its important to stay true to what you like without being swayed by anyone else.

It's a petty thing, but I wouldn't join the Scouts when I was a kid, 'cause you had to swear allegiance to the queen. I'm just not a royalist. I think it's idiotic, a hereditary principle.

I'm from a fancy, well-raised background. We were very well-behaved and not allowed to swear. It's the kind of place where people hide their problems under the rug and pretend it's all perfect. Eventually, you get sick of that.

My whole life growing up, both my parents told me not to swear like a sailor. After college, I recall there was finally a time where I swore, and neither one of them was correcting me, and I felt so relieved. I thought, finally; I can finally be myself and not get yelled at.

I just like swearing and being cheeky.

I was a really bad kid. Then, I got sweet as I got older.

My mother was not what anyone would call sweet, and she wasn't conventional. When my brother couldn't find his shoes one morning, she said, 'Oh, for God's sake, it won't kill him not to have shoes for a day,' and sent him to school without them.

I look like a sweet, corn-fed kid. My roles are my rebellion.

Honestly, I don't think I ever really was a sweet country girl. I think that was a misconception about me. I was always bad.

There's something about America's sweetheart and America's bad boy. That juxtaposition is what everyone desires.

My dad was my swim coach growing up, and I tried to get kicked out of practice every day. I was a little devil kid.

I love skinny-dipping. Night swimming as well; that's my favorite.

I've not been an admirer of contemporary music since punk rock went off the boil in 1977, but once a year I'll listen to 'Spiral Scratch' by the Buzzcocks, or 'Hippy Hippy Shake' by the Swinging Blue Jeans. Otherwise, I can put up with Chopin or shakuhachi flute in the background.

My dad took me and my brother to see Corrosion of Conformity. All I remember was that there was a dude swinging a chain in the mosh pit, and the bouncers were dragging him out.

According to my parents, I was supposed to have been a nice, churchgoing Swiss housewife. Instead I ended up an opinionated psychiatrist, author and lecturer in the American Southwest, who communicates with spirits from a world that I believe is far more loving and glorious than our own.

I want to know where is that committee in Switzerland that sits to decide what is in and what is out. I don't listen to the formula makers. I think maybe I have a selective hearing disorder.

My biggest dream since I was a kid was to be the woman sneaking on the pirate ship dressed like a man, who was this great sword fighter, and the captain fell in love with her.

We subverted the entire premise of 'Westworld' in that our sympathies are meant to be with the robots, the hosts.

Don't be guilty of ignoring symptoms of rebellion when your children are small. Don't simply excuse it as a stage they are going through and think that they will grow out of it. If you ignore it when they are small, you won't be able to handle it when they get older and the rebellion has had time to develop into a strong force.

My dad was a Seventh-Day Adventist pastor, and from an early age I was put off by being force-fed a belief system.

I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.

I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

When you're a young rebellious kid, you think you can beat the system, and when you grow up you realize you can't.