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Quotes About Nonconformity

Tarzan,' I said, 'if my old lady wants to fuck a sheep with a dildo strapped to her nose, that is largely her concern, very secondarily mine, and not yours at all. She can fuck anything she wants—with the possible exception of you.
~ Samuel R. Delany
A great mind must be androgynous.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Blake, the English painter, poet and printmaker, was clearly a man stuck in the P section of potential careers. Now he is considered a great artist, but in his lifetime he was largely ignored or thought to be mad. I suspect it was because he was a gloriously original thinker, and no one ever really likes that.
~ Sandi Toksvig
My whole point of view was, "I'm not gonna change. I'm not gonna get a nose job. I'm not going to pretend I'm the girl next door."
~ Sandra Bernhard
I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform.
~ Sandra Bullock
You are one of those courageous people who want to dare to live; and to do so believe you have to explore the depths of yourself, undistracted and unprotected by social conventions and norms.
~ Sara Maitland
I live to defy y'all's expectations.
~ Sara Ryan
Be Yourself Not What The World Wants You To Be
~ Sara Shepard
I've always been attracted to stories about rebels - things that are unusual and sometimes dangerous.
~ Sara Sheridan
I had never done anything yet that was conventional – why should the love of my life be any different?
~ Sara Sheridan
One can be inclined to just say, "F this political correctness! I don't have time for that!"
~ Quentin Tarantino
There was a time I had resentment against everything mainstream.
~ Anurag Kashyap
I did go through a Goth thing, but that was a long time ago. I just like artists that shake it up, that piss people off or make people think or rattle the cage somehow.
~ Lisa Marie Presley
I would wear flamboyant clothes and long hair, and most singers at the time didn't.
~ Little Richard
We really try not to spend too much time thinking about what we're supposed to be a punk band, or whatever. We do the exact same thing today that we been doing for years and years and years.
~ Mark Hoppus
Black Sabbath wasn't like the Bon Jovis of the time. We were just a bunch of guys that were against the grain of society. And we sung about things that people thought back then.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
Millie Beggs, by the time she was forty-five, had become an emotional anarchist.
~ Zelda Fitzgerald
You and I, travel to the beat of a different drum, can't you tell by the way I run, every time you make eyes at me.
~ Linda Ronstadt
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
~ Orson Welles
If you spend too much time being like everybody else, you decrease your chances of coming up with something different.
~ Robert E. Ornstein
It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters.
~ Seth Godin
I envisioned all these people who had been admired for having been freaks in their own time, and I saw myself in line with them.
~ Ariel Pink
Raistlin did not walk the paths of light, nor did he walk the shadowed paths of darkness. He walked his own path, in his own way, of his own choosing.
~ Margaret Weis
Yaln?zl?k... Onlar?n inand??? gibi inanm?yorum, onlar?n yaÅŸad??? gibi yaÅŸam?yorum, onlar?n sevdiÄŸi gibi sevmiyorum... Onlar?n öldüÄŸü gibi öleceÄŸim.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar