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Quotes About Nonconformity

I like arriving somewhere and taking a left when someone tells you to go right. When all the tourist signs are pointing one way, it's exciting to go the other.
~ Lennie James
I love drag, and I love people who gravitate toward it. Because the people who do drag are people who dance to the beat of a different drummer.
~ RuPaul
Growing up, others girls wanted to dance and help their mums with the cooking. I liked to play soccer with the boys. Or I'd be off on my own, tilting mirrors towards the sun in order to burn armies of ants. That was my idea of fun.
~ Ali Larter
I'm politically inclined towards the left, but I don't like to be in anyone's gang; I'm a bit of a loose cannon.
~ Joanne Harris
It's important to have people who will say to you that you're really off the beaten track.
~ Liz Phair
Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.
~ Eric Hoffer
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
I'm a freeborn man of the travelling people. Got no fixed abode, and no man is my master. Country lanes and byways were always my ways. I never fancied going faster.
~ Ewan MacColl
It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of.
~ David Foster Wallace
I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wild flowers. I put on women's clothing and hang around in bars.
~ Michael Palin
I'm not going to be some kind of PC, tree-hugger.
~ Marilyn Manson
I've clearer idea of how I don't want to be seen - as someone who does what everyone wants them to.
~ Lana Del Rey
The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
I drink to not giving a damn . . .
~ Sheridan Hay
Lizzy's inarching to her own drummer
~ Sherryl Woods
My dad is a motorcycle guy, not some Hollywood dude.
~ Shia LaBeouf
Ich bin kein Kind, ich bin nicht niedlich; warum soll man so jemanden streicheln?
~ Sibylle Berg
I am not weird!" I said. "I'm just differently normal.
~ Simon R. Green
There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
I do not think that I could ever really love a woman who had not, at one time or another, been up on a broomstick.
~ Isak Dinesen
I'm not the kind of woman who would love to make soup or knit sweaters. I never cherished that so much.
~ Yoko Ono
Alber Elbaz is just a genius. He'll be in a dinner jacket and he doesn't care what time of day it is: I love that about him. He just marches to the beat of his own drum.
~ Pharrell Williams
I love you for who you are, not who the world thinks you should be.
~ Libba Bray, Beauty Queens
I have always had this outrage at being told what to, how to act, whom to love.
~ Martina Navratilova