Quotes About Nonconformity

I am not a conformist.

I feel kind of like the black sheep in Congress, but here I am.

I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.

I just try not to label myself in any way. I just have an allergy to labels in general. I can tell you that I am surrounded by very strong women and that I really appreciate that, but I'd rather not label myself.

In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God.

When I dropped out of high school at age 16, I didn't know I was going to become a writer - I just knew I'd never been happy in school, and I had this strong suspicion I'd be happy doing other things.

Do what you want and dont follow any rules. Its important to stay true to what you like without being swayed by anyone else.

I don't care about image and all that nonsense. I'm in sweat pants every day. I don't play the game at all.

I'm an only child. Mostly raised by my father outside of Saratoga, doing martial arts and snowmobiling. I wore sweaters, jeans and sneakers. I was more interested in four-wheeling in the Catskills than doing my hair and makeup at 7 A.M. before school.

I've no interest in fashion, shoes, handbags, or sweaty shopping.

My mother was not what anyone would call sweet, and she wasn't conventional. When my brother couldn't find his shoes one morning, she said, 'Oh, for God's sake, it won't kill him not to have shoes for a day,' and sent him to school without them.

I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.

I was always excited about doing things with people that were ahead of their time, that were sort of out of sync with the rest of society.

I've got Peter Pan syndrome. It's not that I refuse to grow up - I love building businesses; I want to be a good husband, a good father. But I don't want to be boring. I don't want to be normal.

Once you have a Down's syndrome child, you can't conform. In a way, you're free.

His ears were so littered with studs, safety pins and dangling razor blades that if he were to stand between two strong magnets his face would peel off.

My energy comes from freedom and a rebellious spirit.

I would rather be ostracized than assimilated! I read recently that my greatest accomplishment was my unerring ability to make myself unpopular.

I never set out to make myself unpopular; I just say what I think, so I sometimes rub people up the wrong way, particularly people who parade their ideals before them like a banner and use them to hide behind. And I will keep on saying what I think. I am not prepared to abandon my self-determined existence for an ideology or an ideal.

a kind of Calvinist in reverse; that is, he was uncompromisingly bohemian

She was by no means one of the great refusers. Not an existentialist hero, or a Rosa Parks, or even a Bartleby.

So we did what we always do when there is dissent: nothing. We believe blindly in the virtues of dissent. We don't want a crowd of brainwashed workers. We don't want them to sing company songs, memorize company mission statements, and learn to speak only when spoken to.

If you do not have the innate ability to seek out someone's work on your own, and you have to wait for Hollywood to do it for you, then you are some sort of hillside grazer of culture; you are a sheep, a cow, what is biologically classified as a ruminant...Fuck you.

Conformity is the enemy of friendship