Quotes About Nonconformity

You can look for something that's equivalent to Slipknot, and you're going to fail miserably.

You can't put a cubicle on Enzo Amore. You can't put a cubicle around Eric Arndt.

The essence of my way of doing business is to not accept the traditional way things are done.

If it was up to me, there wouldn't be no such thing as the establishment.

Just because everybody else does something isn't a good enough reason to do anything.

I don't follow what everybody else does.

We not trying to do what everybody else is doing.

I feel like I wanted to run differently than everybody else did. And I want to do things that everybody else hasn't done.

Fighting, to me, has always been something different than what everybody's else opinion is. I've never believed what everybody else has.

I have to keep doing me. I have to not look at what everybody else is doing, or what everybody else thinks should be happening right now.

I don't really feel there's rules in my everyday wear. I kind of do whatever the hell I want to do.

Hey... don't lose to the world, to that common sense thing the world embraces.

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

The source of my difficulties has always been the same: an inability to accept what to others seems natural, and an irresistible tendency to voice opinions no one wants to hear . . .

Orthodoxy is my Doxy, Heterodoxy is the other fellow's Doxy.

You don't have to look a certain way to be a tomboy. Don't let anyone tell you that, ever, and please don't find that here in my words. Tomboy thrums in your heart. It's in your head. It's what is holding your spine in place. It can't be hidden by a haircut. It's not about nail polish or not. It's running right now in your veins. If it is in you, you already know. Tomboy blood is so much bigger than the outside of you.

as if I'd said I wanted to sell cheese sandwiches outside Grateful Dead concerts...

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.

This is the history of un-art—the cultural productions that are not intended to convey beauty, not organized around the notion of singular genius expres- sion, not designed to sooth audiences and to confirm the order of things. Un-art comes to unmake worlds.

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist.

There is, however, hope for any person who wants to remain an individual. He can assert himself and refuse to conform. He'll be on his own, that's true, but while he will not have the security enjoyed by those who do conform, there will be no limits to what he may achieve.

I don't want to be a chicken. I don't want to be a duck. So I shake my butt.

Diagnosed ill and off-kilter, poisoners, dreamers, madmen, lunatics, loners, sad ones, bad ones, star pegs in square holes, movers, shakers, mass debaters, tokers, pokers, instigators, conformity haters, subterfuge vessels and assassins of the vassals who lord over free and intelligent men with a dollar held high so that we jump until we die and know not of the pleasures of this life and the freedom of a soul unrestrained from the prison where the only fate is to hang.

I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.