Quotes About Nonconformity

When all think alike, no one thinks very much

Is it really so important to be different?

Hi. I'm Spider Jerusalem. I smoke. I take drugs. I drink. I wash every six weeks. I masturbate constantly and fling my steaming poison semen down from my window into your hair and food. I'm a rich and respected columnist for a major metropolitan newspaper. I live with two beautiful women in the city's most expensive and select community. Being a bastard works.

Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn't understood.

tattooing or any other kind of heavyweight perversion—it

In a sea of soaking-wet goths and metal-heads, she alone was completely dry,

Free spirit" sounded way better than "drunken slack-ass.

I'm not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation.

My definition of cool is finding your own definition of cool and not necessarily taking your lead from what other people tell you or from what you might read from magazines or see on TV.

GET THAT CRAZY-ASS MULLET OFF YA SKULL

?i noi to?i, care ne uitam în sus, am în?eles deodat? ce înseamn? lejeritatea. Am în?eles cum poate fi via?a pentru unul care face cu adev?rat ce î?i dore?te, nu crede în nimic ?i nu ascult? de nimeni. Am priceput cum ar fi s? fii un astfel de om ?i am mai priceput c? noi nu vom fi niciodat? astfel de oameni.

The activities of these parasites and degenerates gave rise to Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism, Pointillism, Constructivism, Orphism, Surrealism, Dada, and also Impossibleism, Supersurrealism, Dynamic Double-Dog Realism, Ishkabibbleism, and Mama, which is like Dada only nicer.

Warwick took on a sheen of impermanence. I could go anywhere, be anyone. I didn't want to be like my mom, to give my life over to men. I couldn't conceive of a life that revolved around or even involved men.

I'm one of them. The weirdos and the freaks. My point was that it's ok to be different, and from now on we'd better be, if we're going to make something of ourselves. It's the one thing I learned in school. Different is ok. -Victoria

But unlike the classically trained, my dancing had no respect for so-called boundaries; I wasn't afraid to break the rules.

Copy individuals who are weird.

For me at least, genderqueer includes an aspect of questioning," Sasha explains. "The fact that I was questioning my gender meant that I was genderqueer.

Why march to the beat of your own drummer when you can skip?

It's not even been a two-and-two-make five sort of day, it's more like a two-and-two-make...fish

In a world gone soft, the time has come to go outlaw!

You must walk to the beat of a different drummer. The same beat that the wealthy hear. If the beat sounds normal, evacuate the dance floor immediately! The goal is to not be normal, because as my radio listeners know, normal is broke.

If you haven't got your own mind and can't do what you want, you're not an individual, just part of a mass.

We do not long remember those artists who followed the rules more diligently than anyone else. We remember those who made the art from which the "rules" inevitably follow.

You cannot attempt to suggest much less try to explain this to normal people inside the box and is why I always throw in the monkey wrench option of doing it the social way