Quotes About Nonconformity

My opinion is, of course, completely my own. I would not impose it on anyone else and decline any pressure to change it.

In spite of all my efforts to create a neat, tidy, obedient, moderate, unexceptional persona, I was simply too weird for them; until that is, my first female tutor was hired.

I'm a very feminine man. I like feminine things. I don't go to strip clubs. I don't drink beer. I don't play sports.

If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it

If you don't fit into a certain type, there's a lot of strength in just being who you are.

Eccentricity: strength of character doubling back on itself.

I'd like to thank my parents for always stressing, be an individual.

If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.

Whatever you do, be different - that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can't think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you're different, you will stand out.

If you don't have a good model for success, just look at what everybody else is doing and do the opposite.

To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular.

Whatever you do, don't play it safe. Don't do things the way they've always been done. Don't try to fit the system. If you do what's expected of you, you'll never accomplish more than others expect.

Whatever success I've achieved has come from pretty much doing the opposite of what I've been told or expected to do.

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

The flamboyant diva in eye-catching costume was Queenie in drag. We have never been able to persuade him to undergo a transsex transformation. He says he prefers remaining a faggot.

When Juliet came flying down the hallway, Stella didn't recognize her friend. Juliet hadn't bothered with makeup; she was wearing a nightgown underneath her raincoat and had on plastic flip-flops. This was the way loved walked in, barely dressed, confused, panic-stricken, overcome, not caring what anyone thought or what they believed.

You're so rebellious as it is." "I am not!" Franny said with her customary defiance

am i insane asked alice yes, but all the best people are replied her father

Why any woman give a shit what people think is a mystery to me.

I'm not lesbian; I'm not bisexual; I'm not straight. I'm just curious.

It ain't bad, said Shug. But I just feel funny living in a square. If I was square, then I could take it better, she said.

I saw the best minds of my generation who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade.

I smoke marijuana every chance I get.

Am I a Stalinist? A Capitalist? A Bourgeois Stinker? A rotten Red? No I'm a fairy with purple wings and white halo translucent as an onion ring in the transsexual fluorescent light of Kiev Restaurant after a hard day's work