Quotes About Conformity

really made me feel that women have been coerced into a way of presenting themselves that is basically a form of bondage. Their shoes, their skirts, even their nails seem designed to stop them from being able

If there was one thing a competent fighting force did not need, Hux knew, it was unforeseen outbursts of individuality.

We made ourselves more acceptable to others in a variety of ways. Perhaps you learned that you could win approval by becoming more sensitive than the other boys. Maybe you learned that you could win approval by displaying a creativity that the other boys refused to show, or you learned to win approval by excelling at everything you did.

I wasn't happy about it, but I respected their decision. Every now and then you had to break the rules to do the right thing, but a lot of times following the rules was the right thing.

A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, "Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray."

There was no call for that," Father said. "I've never been so—" "Humiliated?" Adrana finished for him. "You know what the real humiliation is? Being a Ness, that's what. Grovelling our way up the Mazarile social ladder, trying to pretend we're something we're not.

All these corporations don't want their drivers to ruin their image, so you can't say what you think. You're basically not allowed to have a personality. How can you have any heroes if you don't allow personalities?

We get criticized for showing no personality, then we get penalized when we do.

My college friends call me Karu, which is the worst. Only in our country can we make a short form for a short name. But otherwise, I've never had a pet name all my life. But now, in official meetings, someone will call me KJo. And I'll judge that person in my head. Just call me Karan.

I went through that phase where I shaved the entire side of my head off - I actually love the way it looks, but it doesn't really work when you're walking into a room for an audition.

With the social media phenomenon, where people's opinions inform so much of what we do with our lives, where the number of 'likes' decides what we should program, I cringe.

In Hollywood, you can't say anything bad about anybody or everyone is going to attack you. It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like.

It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like. Maybe that will always keep me an outsider, I don't know. But that's fine.

I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits - I was really digging it, but they were like, 'We'll airbrush that out.'

No one wants to be with a girl that your mother would pick for you.

They tried to get me to use a pick when I first joined the band. They had certain things they thought were appropriate. I tried to adapt as much as I could.

I wanted to be like some of the other young ladies that were in my school. I used to get picked on in church. Nobody wants to hang out with me. I want to hang out with the cool girls, and I started to take the wrong turn and do things I knew wasn't right.

If you are at a boys' school, especially, there is a level of bravado that you have to keep up otherwise you'll get picked on.

I kind of have to take pieces of myself to fit what it is that radio wants.

People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.

You get pigeonholed. You accept it or you fight it. I've accepted it.

I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.

Sometimes you become the person people try to pin you into a corner to be, which is not really fair.

I used to have a bright pink, shiny bubble jacket when I was young. My mum made me wear it.