Quotes About Nonconformity

I just don't give a damn, woman. White or black, I want you for what you are.

Don't be bitter and mean 'couse you don't fit in, it's a GIFT. Look at you. you've got your individuality, you don't have the herd instinct, you can read Neitzsche and understand it. Only dumb people are happy.

As far as I was concerned, there was nothing wrong with being an odd duck. I figured some people have edges that don't allow them to slot neatly into the holes society expects them to fit into, that was all.

Sometimes people think you're smart if you question the status quo, if nothing else.

After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock.

Craig Groeschel

So if it seems like you're doing something different from what everyone else is doing, and if sometimes that feels hard, this is a good thing, not a bad thing.

sidewinder. I didn't even bother pretending

Hey, I try and have an open container with me no matter what state I'm in." She

But then I have always been somewhat of a square peg in a round hole.

Passing judgment on others for decisions that affect only themselves is absolutely noxious to any anarchist – not to mention it makes them less likely to experiment with the options you offer.

True rebels hate their own rebellion. They know by experience that it is not a cool and glamorous lifestyle; it takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done.

No deberías querer ser igual que todo el mundo. Entonces no serías tú misma".

I don't relate to people that look like me. I find it deeply unsatisfying to play a version of myself. It was something I had to figure out really early on, when I was at RADA, because I was being cast, over and over again, as the young, virginal thing. When I left RADA, I was on an absolute mission to never wear make-up.

I think all of my male characters, I suppose, in all of my films, they're not necessarily the traditional version of masculinity.

Vertigo's always been a label that experiments with new stuff and forms of subversion.

When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

I am not about fringing, cow girl boots, that kind of Coachella vibe. I just wear something comfortable.

I went through a big Jim Morrison phase where I grew my hair and wore those black leather pants. I even tried to get the boots, the chains, and I was full into getting that Jim Morrison vibe... but I didn't go overboard or try the mascara.

I feel, in the sense that if you're heterosexual, if you're bisexual, if you're gay, if you're a lesbian, if you're transgender, whatever the vibe is, that's what you represent. I've always found it quite strange that we always like to try and define people and say this is how it is, and this is how it should be.

We've managed to have a long career that is still quite vibrant, yet we've never had to kow-tow to record companies who said we weren't commercial enough.

People perceive punk rock in the sense of Sid Vicious, all strung-out, crazy and insane.

I am not steeped in all that angst. I'm never going to be Sid Vicious.

I'm not a fashion victim, and I don't closely follow trends. I dress the way I feel comfortable because, at the end of the day, you have to be comfortable.