Quotes About Nonconformist

I'm not trendy and I'm not popular.

Hegel believed that progress is ultimately furthered by the person who is out of step with the majority. Only this person, the genuine nonconformist, really experiences the constraints on freedom. Only this person is in the position of questioning the prevailing understandings of happiness. For

There's no such thing as a normal angel. It's never done that way.

I have a slight contrarian impulse I can't seem to shake.

I just consider myself slightly left-of-center. I'm not your average bear. I - what's the word? I'm not - normal.

It's an album that is a little bit different and probably isn't easy to get out. It's not likely that a major label would have picked it up and said that they had a smash hit record.

Almost none of the poetries I admire stick to their labels, native or adopted ones. Rather, they are vagrant in their identifications. Tramp poets, there you go, a new label for those with unstable allegiances.

We're not your typical couple. Not by any stretch of the imagination.

I'm not the kind of guy a girl would take home to her mother. She'd kick the girl out and probably call the cops on me.

I'm certainly not a baby kissing, hand slapping, rah rah good guy. I definitely think there's more of an edge to my character.

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser.

I'm free-spirited, and it gets me into trouble.

I'm just a troublemaker.

I was a troublemaker. For a long time, I didn't fit in.

I am interested in work that jumps boundaries, and that makes trouble. Part of me is comfortable with that: with being a bit of a troublemaker.

Hopefully people are upset for the reason I want them to be upset. Even when I was doing open mics, I've always had people upset. I've never been the consummate crowd-pleaser.

As I've had occasion to say before, I'm a pretty anti-sociable Socialist.

I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!

Catwoman isn't a 'joiner.' She's a solo operator. She isn't naturally heroic; she's fairly selfish.

I like someone who has a little bad boy in them, a little edge.

I'm not a lady who lunches.

We are not old men. We are not worried about petty morals.

The true vanguardist is unnaceptable, infamous and illegible.