Quotes About Nonconformity

The idea of not being what people expect me to be is what keeps me going.

I don't care if people don't like me. I wasn't put on this Earth to entertain anyone.

I don't care what people think or say about me, I was not born on this earth to please anyone.

I dont care what people think of me, I'm who I am and who I want to be.

I only know how to be me, won't be another carbon copy.

I like being insane, because I do not want to be sane like everyone else.

I'd rather be the oddball that no one likes than put on a fake smile and lie away my life...

Fake is the latest trend. Be different, be real.

Im a very independent girl and some people think I'm weird because of it but that doesnt bother me. Just because I'm not afraid to stand up for what I believe in when everyone else is sitting down, thats no reason to follow the crowd. Because maybe, just maybe, Ill make someones life better because I wasnt afraid.

Strong people don't follow the crowd even if the crowd is against them.

Want to really get somewhere in life? Just don't follow the crowd.

The best way to live your life is to not not care what other people think about you.

Its better to live a goat than 100 sheep.

The Oblivion Seekers, a collection one critic has described as "one of the strangest human documents that a woman has given to the world.

I have never found it difficult to abandon a group , to go against the alpha male or female. I have never much cared for gangs, for social tribes , for fitting in. I have known since I was very young that the in-crowd isin't my crowd;they are not my people.

My wife, I should tell you, is crazy. Not in a requiring-medication-and-wards-and-men-in-white-coats sense— although I sometimes wonder if there may have been times in her past—but in a subtle, more socially acceptable, less ostentatious way. She doesn't think like other people. She believes that to pull a gun on someone lurking, in all likelihood entirely innocently, at our perimeter fence is not only permissible but indeed the right thing to do.

I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16 I wasn't interested in high school at all and figured that college might be more entertaining.

I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.

I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.

Sid Vicious began the age of participation in which everyone could be the artist. Sid proved that you don't have to play well to be the star. You can play badly, or not even at all. I endorsed that attitude. If you can't write songs, no problem - simply steal one and change it to your taste.

Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.

There's nothing in this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.

There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.