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Quotes About Conformity

I went to a Catholic School, and underneath my school uniform, I wore a metal shirt.
~ George Stroumboulopoulos
I want to be a traveling circus in that big-league uniform, like everybody else.
~ Dontrelle Willis
My problem has always been with authority, and I'm sure if anybody understands that, it's people in uniform.
~ Lewis Black
I wanted to wear a uniform when I was in high school, but I couldn't. I was like, 'It would be so much easier!'
~ Taylor Schilling
I grew up wearing a uniform to school, and now I have my stylist come to my apartment and create outfits for me to wear. Otherwise, I'd never get dressed.
~ Tyra Banks
When I was younger, I had pink underneath my hair, and I got detention. I went to an all-girls school where you wore a uniform, and pink hair was not OK.
~ Gia Coppola
When I was 13, I kind of got into the punk scene. I realized it was easier to wear a pair of combat boots and jeans and a beat-up T-shirt. I think of it as a uniform.
~ Justin Theroux
It's really weird to be taken seriously for what you're wearing. It makes me want to wear a uniform.
~ Parker Posey
I used to use a sunbed after school. It wasn't a regular thing, but I'd go in wearing my uniform. No one ever stopped me. No one told me it was dangerous.
~ Nicola Roberts
I wouldn't really, realistically speaking, know the difference between wearing an S.S. uniform and a U.S. Marine uniform. To me it's all a uniform.
~ Christoph Waltz
Oh, in high school, I wore a uniform!
~ Lana Condor
But I'd love to have a uniform to wear every day and not have to worry about expressing myself with my outfits - which is also fine once in a while.
~ Konkona Sen Sharma
What's sometimes really overwhelming in Sweden is the uniformity. People kind of disappear by all looking the same and wearing the same clothes. There are a lot of great individuals, but it can become a very blank and bleak picture.
~ Neneh Cherry
Uniformity is the friend of scalability.
~ Karl Iagnemma
The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product.
~ Peter Davison
Men's fashion's tendency toward uniformity promises little fun, but at least it offers this: If I wear sweatpants and sneakers, I can pass as the American it's safest to be.
~ Rumaan Alam
Let me go to Clinton's new proposal: to have uniforms in public schools. And people are doing that. How come they're doing that? Dress codes! I find that abhorrent.
~ Russell Means
Well, the thing about my high school, which I loved, is that we had uniforms. But whenever we had a free dress day, it was prep-ville, with sweater vests and polo shirts and khakis and Dockers.
~ Vanessa Lachey
In my school, we wore uniforms and couldn't apply nail polish or kajal.
~ Ananya Panday
I have a problem with fashion magazines sometimes - they seem to have these dogmas or uniforms. 'This is the way you must look; this is this season's must-have.' I really resent the phrase 'must-have.' I prefer to decide for myself what I think is beautiful or fashionable.
~ Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
I'd spent seven years in an all-boys school: 2,000 adolescents in the same khaki uniforms striking hunting poses, stalking lunchrooms, classrooms, changing rooms, looking for boys who didn't fit in.
~ Marlon James
Rich people don't like to be in the military. The shoes are ugly and the uniforms itch. Rich people don't go in much for revolution or terrorism, either.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
The thing about my high school, which I loved, is that we had uniforms. But whenever we had a free dress day, it was prep-ville, with sweater vests and polo shirts and khakis and Dockers.
~ Vanessa Lachey
Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the rules of the European Union than most member states.
~ Jose Manuel Barroso