Quotes About Nonconformity

It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.

"You listen to Portishead, you're not like the others. Want some coke?" I'm like, "Nah, man."

What is a man? What is a woman? And why do we have to be one or the other?

Which path do you intend to take, Nell?' said the Constable, sounding very interested. 'Conformity or rebellion?' Neither one. Both ways are simple-minded - they are only for people who cannot cope with contradiction and ambiguity.

I gotta say this," Scott says as the guy is sitting on his new bike, getting his swords adjusted, doing something incredibly unauthorized to the bios, "you look like one bad motherfucker.

It irritates the hell out of me to be in a situation where I'm forced to do exactly what's expected.

Not just in matters of sexuality, but in all of life, never, ever, ever, fail to do something simply because it might violate someone else's standards of propriety. If I had one bumper sticker on my car, it would read: VIOLATE PROPRIETY I would certainly put such a sign in every bedroom.

I didn't want to be part of some trend. I wasn't doing this for a fashion statement

Maybe it was stupid and solipsistic, but I liked to think about me. I didn't want to be part of some trend.

Never underestimate the stimulation of eccentricity.

A pickup artist must be the exception to the rule. You must not do what everyone else does. Ever.

more likely to have creative ideas (or less likely to suffer from group-think).

I am not ready to fit into the mould of commercial cinema.

What I love about Kanye is that he doesn't fit the mould either. He does what he feels.

We've never tried to fit any mould because we already broke the one we started.

I am not defined to be in any mould and I can be whatever I want to be.

I know I'm different and I don't fit in to any kind of generic mould.

When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.

I try to force myself to close my mouth when I put mascara on. I don't want to be part of the masses!

I don't really feel part of any particular movement.

Heart weren't part of a movement like grunge; we were our own kind of movement.

I don't pay much attention to career or what other people think. I've always been quite arrogant.

You have to figure out ways to do things on your own. I do my own thing, and I don't pay much attention to what anyone else is doing.

I don't think there is a life in the mundane 9-to-5 hypocrisy. That's not living.