Quotes About Conformity

Women like bad boys…Being a good boy never worked for me.

I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.

Why are we still afraid of being other than men? Women are still in hiding.

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

U.N.-orchestrated gatherings are typically the death of all spontaneity and innovation.

When I was a kid, in a very white boarding school in England in the '90s, I had this sort of middle part that kids had - that sort of long, floppy hair. So I was always desperate to have long, floppy hair, and I would try and brush it and spray it, and it would just look like a Brillo pad!

Where I'm from, you're a square if you go to church or if you decide to read the Koran or Bible.

I loved the army, but it didn't really love me. I used to get into trouble because I thought outside the square.

I never intended to go to Broadway. I was very happy being in an Off Broadway theater and having an Off Broadway life. What it did to me is try to fit a round peg - that's me - into a whole bunch of square buildings. I just didn't fit.

For me, in my auditioning career and my professional life, since I am kind of a big person and since I have a big personality, I often find myself trying to squeeze myself into boxes that are really too small for me, and it ends up not working out.

In fact, most people are being squeezed in their little cubicle, and their creativity is forced out elsewhere, because the company can't use it. The company is organized to get rid of variants.

You have to decide if you want something stable and safe or if you want to take a risk and go outside the formula and try something new. That's everything that dance embodies.

A contract player has to do what he's told, and play the parts others pick out for him. As far as the studio is concerned he's just part of the stable.

I'll come down the stairs, and my parents and sister will be like, 'What are you wearing?'

A lot of people dub our work as New Age. But for some reason, they don't dub Stan Lee's work that way.

I feel like jeans and a T-shirt have become Establishment. Everyone's dressed down. So actually, putting on a jacket is the anti-Establishment stance.

There can be an extremist idea of purity. It's so easy to fall afoul of the ridiculously high standard set there.

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

The world needs more standardization, less innovation.

I had a meeting with Umar Akmal and discussed exactly where I thought he was. We are looking at the skillset that he brings to the Pakistan team. Obviously, he is a very intelligent player but he knows that he has to conform. He knows that he has got to pass the fitness standards that are required of him.

It's nice to stand out and not have to conform to all the beauty standards that just don't even make sense anymore.

If you don't live up to somebody's standards, you get hammered.

I actually keep having this one recurring dream where I'm a little number standing in a line of other numbers that look identical to me. Then there are more and more of these numbers that follow me, again and again and again. It's more of a nightmare.

No one in high school wants to be put under the spotlight. You don't want to be that person who stands up for the other people because then the people who are going after those people are gonna come after you.