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Quotes About Nonconformity

I guess the all-American presentation of what a player is supposed to stand for is not what I am.
~ Shawn Kemp
I've never been pressed to be friends with everyone or be popular, even in school - I've always done my own thing.
~ Kali Uchis
I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.
~ Joel Osteen
There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.
~ Beck
I'm not someone who feels the pressure of someone else's expectations. That's a very young way to feel.
~ Kirsten Dunst
In this perfect world, there are certain imperfections that catch your eye. That's what works for me. I don't concentrate on being perfect, but instead put that effort behind my craft and being true to myself. I don't conform to pressures outside of me. I am confident about myself.
~ Sonakshi Sinha
Being uncool is being pretty much the coolest you can be.
~ Rufus Wainwright
I'm not a pretty person. I don't like pretty, so I don't feel badly. Most of the world is not with me, but I don't care.
~ Iris Apfel
Conformity is dangerous.
~ Adam Grant
I'm a daredevil. I'm not much for authority or rules.
~ Mike Hughes
I've dated men. I've dated women. I don't know why anyone would care.
~ Lee Pace
Through most of my career, I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.
~ Jean-Luc Godard
I know people want me to sort of defend myself, to sit here and be like, 'I'm a boy, but I wear make-up sometimes.' But, you know, to me, it doesn't really matter.
~ Andreja Pejic
If you define eccentricity as creativity, then yes, creativity is eccentricity.
~ Russell Smith
I don't define drag. Drag is defined by me.
~ Aquaria
I don't want to be easily defined.
~ Theophilus London
I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.
~ Spike Jonze
I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.
~ Anthony Kiedis
I didn't want to go get a job or get a degree in business or marketing, or whatever all my friends were getting degrees in.
~ James Marsden
Not a Republican, he's not a Democrat, he's not an independent. Trump is Trump.
~ Haim Saban
I am attracted to anything that does not feel derivative.
~ Bennett Miller
Being a black sheep is a way I would describe myself.
~ Gin Wigmore
I wouldn't be a good model for any designer's idea of what fashion is.
~ Robin Wright
I could care less about what people think. I'm a Devil Without A Cause.
~ Kid Rock