Quotes About Maverick

I always went left to what everybody else was doing. I'm used to going against the grain.

'Top Gun' was one of my favorite movies growing up.

There is no 'Top Gun 2' in which Maverick is not the starring role.

Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.

I've always been in a rebel.

I've always been a bit of a rebel.

When people tell me that I must get my maverick gene from my father, they are only half right. My father and I both have inherited our rebellious personalities from Nana. She has always lived her life on her own terms, something that was once considered quite scandalous, given the times she grew up in.

There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.

We don't know much about our hero before 325 BCE-he just sort of materialized out of thin air like a face-melting UFO or a vengeful, homicidal rainbow, but apparently he had some serious beef with people in charge...

Graham's legacy is not as a maverick or a trailblazer. It is the legacy of a man who used Jesus as a tool to placate the masses so that the status quo of conservative white America could remain firmly in place.

What sort of person experimentally infests a child with maggots? A confident sort, certainly. A maverick. Someone comfortable with the unpretty facts of biology. Someone who is perhaps himself an unpretty fact of biology.

I've always tended to play people who relish playing against the rules.

If you're calling yourself a maverick and you're not Dirk Nowitzki, then you are probably not one. In fact, this rule applies to anyone declaring themselves a 'God-fearing Christian' or a 'Man of the people.'

He (Tomaz Humar) doesn't conform to existing standards; he creates them.

The best non-conformists are the ones you would never suspect.

I am to wrestling what Elvis was to rock n' roll!

I am kind of the guy you'd expect to be driving an 18-wheeler through town.

My main motivation is not to get bored. I'm just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation.

Without putting words in anybody's mouth, I think that Roddy has a reputation for being a rebel. I don't think that's a big secret.

I simply refuse to play by the rules.

I'm like a renegade and that rubs people wrong.

Future system busters will always seem like problem children. But the truth is, they just can't be compacted into any system, and can detect the flaws in them all.

Burry did not think investing could be reduced to a formula or learned from any one role model. The more he studied Buffett, the less he thought Buffett could be copied; indeed, the lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual. "If you are going to be a great investor, you have to fit the style to who you are," Burry said. "At one point I recognized

I would summarise my politics very simply as the maverick left and proud.