Quotes About Nonconformity

My knock with filmmaking is the whole bureaucracy around it, so in some ways, staying outside of it is easier for me.

Freedom is about a way of thinking. Freedom is about understanding that you can do anything that you want and freedom is about being able to take information and education and make it relevant to your own growth every single day. Freedom is not staying in the box. Freedom is not doing what other people want you to do.

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

The whole world is out of step, apart from me.

I've never taken the steps to be 'successful': I've never had a manager or signed to a publishing house.

One of the cool things about 'Patti Cake$' is that it is about someone that is against stereotype.

Everyone is their own kind of lesbian. To think there's a certain way to dress or present yourself in the world is just one more stereotype we have to fit into.

I like being feminine, it's my way of not conforming to the stereotype that if you're a racing driver you don't care how you look.

We have to stop this stereotype that for girls it's about being in pink and horse riding. We need to teach kids to think outside the box, to dare girls to be different.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.

You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future. Besides, it took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen.

The thrill of walking comes not so much from movement—except for the initial turning of a step out the door into a journey—but from its gifts of freedom and nonconformity. In a world built on speed, walking somewhere is an act of rebellion. You reject every type of contraption that your forebears have invented to get you there faster—including the bicycle—for your own two legs. You head out into the world while turning your back on its ways.

Women don't get to be bad boys.

Finally, Shane angled the microphone up and spoke five words. "This is for the misfit.

Jacob would have rather looked out of place at the Ritz than look like he cared to fit in anywhere.

Nobody,   and I mean  nobody,   ever started a revo-lution playing by the rules." 

Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog-Flavored Water.

Nobody, and I mean nobody, ever started a revolution playing by the rules.

Nobody, and I mean nobody, ever started a revolution playing by the rules." The

Mad Matter: "Have I gone mad?" Alice: "I'm afraid so. You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.

I was never interested in what everybody else was interested in. I was very interiorized. I always felt kind of sad.

Maybe it's just in America, but it seems that if you're passionate about something, it freaks people out. You're considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are.

couldn't be scathed. He was the crack in the system