Quotes About Defiance

I'm not changing the way I dress: I refuse to wear a suit.

North Korea is an unimaginable country. We aren't free to sing, say, wear or think what we want.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.

I was like, 'I'm never gonna do country, I'm never gonna give in, you'll never see me wear a cowboy hat.'

I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.

Nan Kempner wore one of the first Saint Laurent trouser suits to one of those fancy Madison Avenue restaurants and was denied access. She famously took off her pants and walked in wearing only the jacket. And it was that kind of revolution that was echoed in fashion and in life.

There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

When I was 16, I was watching '101 Dalmatians,' and my mom never let me bleach my hair, so I told her I was going to dye my hair like Cruella De Vil; she didn't believe me. I came home with my hair like this, and she didn't talk to me for, like, a week. It was really hilarious.

I rebelled against all form of authority, against my grandfather, my step-father, the Church, the police, the government, the bosses. Everything male that was there, and was determining my life.

It's one thing to decry and defy political correctness in the name of efficiently achieving clarity or revealing an honest truth. But it's quite another thing entirely to support name-calling and nastiness.

If you don't like this, we don't care - I think that's the essence of what popular music should be.

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.

The fighting back by indigenous people started in 1900: OK, they've cornered us. Our population is almost gone; they've defeated us. From there, the modern Indian rights movement started, and it was a very hard fight, with a lot of stuff going against them.

I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The answer is no! Absolutely and finally no! Finally and positively no! No! No! No! N - O!

No bully ever turns down a free shot when his posse pins back your arms.

I've got a motto. When the posse's chasing you out of town, you just act like you're the head of a parade.

I've always wanted to make a poster out of my bad reviews and frame it.

When we classify an issue as a 'shield issue' it is usually because we feel that someone else occupies the high ground on that issue. We feel we can't win on that issue and so we adopt a defensive posture.

We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead.

I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.

I always do the contrary of what my coaches tell me.

I don't really like being controlled by anyone.

I'm not afraid and these 15 days convinced me there is nothing to fear. Let them be afraid instead.

'No one sits Baby in a corner,' one of the best lines in movie history.