Quotes About Nonconformity

I'm not like recruiting people and starting a cult and telling people to be fat.

I get enraged when people start telling other people how to live their lives.

If Paul McCartney tells me that so-and-so song is his favorite song, what do I care? What do I care what anybody else says?

I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.

Always be different; don't follow the rules. Don't do what anyone tells you. Don't use the same sounds as people; don't use the same drums as people.

As soon as you tell me to do one thing, I do the opposite. As soon as someone tells me not to get any more tattoos, I have this intense fire burning inside me to cover myself with them. I don't care if it's self-destructive. I just have that need to rebel.

Conventional wisdom tells us to avoid taking unalterable action while at a low point in life. I have never been conventional.

If someone tells me I can't wear something, that's the moment when I want to wear it.

I'm the black sheep: I got into telly.

I don't do this watching telly thing. I realise I am strange.

I'm not a good dog trainer for the same reasons I am not a Republican: I endorse all forms of social anarchy.

One can,' said Ernest 'remain unmoved before a cloud as before an automatic ticket machine. I don't like poetry, I don't like flowers, I don't like machines, I don't like sugar, I don't like pepper, I don't like what you like.' This was addressed to whoever attacked Ernest.

To be me is to be different...

E's always wanted to live the way 'e does – do art, live in a commune, polyamorous…'e an' Mariam 'ave got an open relationship. Nils sleeps with Freyja, anuvver woman at Norf Grove, sometimes. 'Er partner seems OK with it…

Many things that come into the world are not looked into. The individual says 'My crowd doesn't run that way.' I say, don't run with crowds.

Third Doctor: A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting

Henry David Thoreau, whom Gandhi read, declared, "Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth." Havel, Gandhi, and Thoreau sought to live out humane truths that challenged the falsehoods imposed upon them by what they perceived as the malignant normality of their societies.

Definitely not a Gertrude.

Difference for the sake of difference is as empty an achievement as slavishly following the commercial imperative. Write only what you believe.

If you do what everyone else does, you'll wind up having what everyone else has.

Here was a man who had not gone along with the crowd. He was a man who did his own thinking and detested the words, "We have to do it this way because that's the way everyone else does it." He also hated the word "can't." If you wanted him to do something, just say, "I don't think you can do it.

A veces la vida se pone difícil cuando tu perfil no coincide con el de todos los demás.

Hawkins sought out the freshest, most original musicians, and had little patience for those who would quibble over the difference between "modern" or "progressive," "swing" or "bebop." "I don't think about music as being new, or modern, or anything of the type," he mused. "Music doesn't go seasonable to me."44

There is a huge value placed in our world on doing what everyone else is doing and thinking as everyone else is thinking.