Quotes About Defiance

I've always challenged authority.

The Afghans are probably the world champions in resisting foreign domination and infiltration into their country.

What chance has cancer against me?

I am not Salman Khan, I am Rakhi Sawant. You won't get anything by putting charges on me.

I couldn't be as charming as my mother or as smart as my father. So I decided to be bad.

I really don't turn the other cheek. So when I feel like I'm being attacked, I don't back down.

If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.

I was told I wasn't good enough, but I just chose not to listen.

Cinderella is a little edgy and a little rough around the edges.

I was even superior to the Communists and when they didn't go along with me, I quit them.

My personality is based on an anonymity and failure. Failure and anonymity, those are my strengths - superiority from below.

I'm the Rated-R Superstar. I do what I want when I want.

I stand up for what is right even if it puts me in a political conundrum. Supporting Senator Sanders was one of those moments when the status quo said 'Uh uh, bad girl.'

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

Anybody who knows me has said, 'I had a Denis O'Hare moment.' I suppose in the kindest instance it means standing up for yourself. In the unkindest, it means the crazy guy in the street.

I suppose if there's a set of genes I have, it's detesting authority.

I admit, I don't look like the athlete of the day's supposed to look. My belly's just a little big, my heinie's just a little big, but, brother, I am bad, and they know I'm bad.

I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.

It was a reaction to when I was growing up, and women were supposed to be all blonde hair, gold suntan, and pink lips. It was a real black-and-white opposite of what was considered attractive. I was kicking against something I found really oppressive.

When I'm not supposed to do something, it becomes more attractive to me.

I think that hip-hop has done what it was supposed to have done, which is it defied all the laws of what is statistically a music genre and what statistically is not a music genre. Because it wasn't supposed to be here.

Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn't supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat.

I've never been one to bow down to people who try to question my identity because I don't fit their mould of what an Aboriginal Australian is supposed to be or look like.

You want us to be like good Germans, supporting the evils of our decade and then when we refused to be good Germans and came to Chicago and demonstrated, now you want us to be like good Jews, going quietly and politely to the concentration camps while you and this court suppress freedom and the truth. And the fact is I am not prepared to do that.