Quotes About Defiance

I think I'm better than all the people who are trying to reform me.

Boys, they can't take my refrigerator now. They'll never get my car now. I paid cash for 'em and they're mine, and I'm keepin' 'em!

My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

I refuse to bow to the cancel mob.

I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.

Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.

I refuse to age disgracefully in rock 'n' roll.

I love to see heroes who fuel some kind of moral furnace inside them, who are driven to take on the evils of the world, despite the fact that the evils of the world are more powerful than them. And essentially can never be defeated, but they refuse to bow down. And in order to enjoy that aspect of the hero, you've got to put them through hell.

Just by the nature of making the choice to be true to who I am, I'm political. Sometimes that's all you need to do: Show up and be black, gay and Christian in America and actually say it out loud. And refuse to let anything or anybody take that away from you.

Our obligation is to refuse to let bad win, to refuse to let evil hold the field.

My message to women - including women of color - stand strong. Refuse to be minimized or patronized. Let all the small guys out there be intimidated by you.

I kind of will over everything. There will be situations where like 'I refuse!'

Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it.

Time and again I was asked to arrest Jamaat activists but I put my foot down and refused to cave in.

I refused to let my parents take my hat off when I went to bed.

I've still got a brilliant head of hair, which refuses to lay down!

One is either destroyed by adapting or for refusing to.

There's no way in hell I'm supposed to be on television or be a broadcaster of any regard. But I have defied those odds because I believe in this: I am damn sure not going to let somebody else define who I am.

I shall always be proud of what I've done, regardless of what you journalists or anybody can say.

Even in the darkest regions, people have discovered their right of freedom.

Beetle is the embodiment of everybody's resistance to authority, all the rules and regulations which you've got to follow. He deals with it in his own way. And in a way, it's sort of what I did when I was in the Army. I just oftentimes did what I wanted to do.

The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves - hence, they reinvent the world around them.

Let the whole world hear that we reject America. No, no to the occupier.