Quotes About Nonconformity

Woe betide the man who refuses to conform.

To be honest, I think affiliation is anathema - if you're a rock 'n' roller, you're a lone wolf.

I think Uber is just very different; there's no model to copy. It may be the reason why we've been a lightning rod in so many ways, because we don't do anything conventional... And then I think also, as an entrepreneur, I'm a bit of a lone wolf.

A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself.

The fact that a man is open to being with an older woman suggests that he doesn't give a hang what other people think of him. More likely, he's confident, open-minded and willing to make his own rules.

I've kind of got a rebellious bone. I think I came out of the womb like that.

I don't believe in politics. I'm an anarchist, I guess you could say. I think people could be just fine looking after themselves.

Women who stay true to themselves are always more interesting and beautiful to me: women like Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe and Anna Magnani - women who have style, chic, allure and elegance. They didn't submit to any standard of beauty - they defined it.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

I think that school just isn't for everyone. A lot of people don't learn well when they're - have to sit in a place for eight hours. A lot of people learn best lying in their own bed, teaching themselves from books. And I was a bad student. I was a brat. If I was a teacher, I would not have liked myself.

Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.

If people are making fun of you then you're probably doing something right.

What I do doesn't sit well in the world of hipsterville. I don't have a cool card, but I also don't have thin skin.

Too fat, too thin, too loud, too quiet - I was never going to fit the standards others created for me. Instead of complying, I protested.

My mother was a stout woman with a man's name - Billie. She was plain-faced with honest eyes - no black grease by the lash line, no blue powder on the lids, eyebrows not plucked up high and thin.

When you're really having fun, you're always doing it a little bit in a way that you're not supposed to. That's when great things happen.

I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.

We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!

We do what we want. We don't care what anyone else thinks.

I've always had my own opinions and have always been somebody who thinks outside the box.

More Than' means refusing to define yourself according to what society dictates, or everyone around you thinks you should do or be.

What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about.