Quotes About Nonconformity

I was kind of the black sheep with the Disney kids. I was uninterested in making friends with most of them. I didn't really fall into 'the Disney mold.' I was more or less the kid hanging out with the crew members and got along with them far better.

I do like things that are not necessarily a reflection of what is considered the right thing by this culture. Somehow, promoting that status quo I find uninteresting.

We have to find places that we protect away from government so that we can all be the unique and interesting and, in my case, somewhat deviant people we'd like to be.

I don't want to follow in anyone's footsteps. I want to follow my own path and do something unique.

Don't let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.

I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing.

We can raise our sights high when we're willing to break free from being conformists who live a conventional life simply because we are too afraid to express our uniqueness.

I've got a feeling that with the best coppers - and in fact the best people in any field of work - what sets them apart is a maverick quality. People who are not afraid to bend the rules in order to achieve the universally desired end.

I buy unknown, lower-name brand jeans. I don't care about the name brands, if I look good in the jeans I don't care who made them.

It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities . . .

Women are natural anarchists...

The woman who follows the crowd will usually believe that I said this.

It is the free spirited men and women that we most admire and often envy - those individuals who dare to be themselves.

EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc.

It's not the worst thing in the world to look different from everyone else.

I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.

Punk allowed women to stop looking feminine. Oh, the relief.

I think a lot of women innately know how to play their hand. I'm not a big one for the rules.

If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man.

Women are supposed to want to settle down and have a family. That's not for me.

All women are rebels.

I reckon if I ever marry, she will have to be a strong woman in a circus or something.

The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.

She was a rule breaker, never settling her fierce spirit for things built of structure.