Quotes About Nonconformity

I want makeup to be more about freedom of expression. If I want to put on makeup and make myself look different, I can, but it's not a standard for every single day.

I don't imagine myself, my work, or my life, fitting into any kind of standardized path. In fact, the idea of there even being a standard freaks me out a lot.

I want to break standards.

I love the idea of challenging what the standards is.

To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'.

You may confuse a lot of people when going against the grain of conventional thinking, and that's perfectly okay. As an entrepreneur, standing up for your vision to your family and friends might possibly be the best practice you will get for the life that awaits you.

Growing up, I was the odd bird. My interest in mathematics, my interest in the world, how I approach things from a scientific standpoint. You're always going to be looked at as a different bird.

I've always wanted to do things different, always wanted to be the person who stands out from the pack.

Don't shave, don't shower, don't care. Be really stinky and wear the same clothes every day. I think what makes a man sexy is not being self-aware. That's what's really cute to me.

I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.

I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.

I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile.

He seemed wild and dangerous and carefree--well, he would, would'nt he? What were motorcycles and black leather pants if not the uniform of a wild, dangerous and carefree man?

To be a man is to be a nonconformist.

I pick my nose and I'm not ashamed to admit it. If there's a bogey then just pick it, man.

I am for the small man who has not forgotten, for the man who loves his beer and his women and his sunlight

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading "Keep Off.

Few of the great creators have bland personalities. They are cantankerous egotists, the kind of men who are unwelcome in the modern corporation.

I do not choose to be a common man.

I don't fit into the mold of the NBA man, and I think I've been punished financially for it.

Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.