Quotes About Nonconformity

Why would I care what other people are thinking? I don't care what an audience thinks of me.

Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, and Linda Evangelista - those models got bunched together. I was always asked to be bunched in there, but I didn't want to be part of the herd. The only one I really had a problem with, though, was Naomi.

I thought one should have the attitude of 'What do you care what other people think!'

I always thought we had more in common with punk than with anything else, but we had long hair, so we didn't fit in that box.

I'd rather have a hundred thousand or a million people saying I'm nuts and I'm crazy for my musical choices and what I've said lyrically, than a million people all raising their hand on the first day.

A young man with an untrimmed beard and rebellious eyes looked like a conscientious objector to everything.

They didn't know which box to put me in so I think it was easier to just see past me

Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.

There are advantages to the way I look. When no one expects anything of you they leave you alone and you can do whatever you want.

Glitter family is my long-time favourite term for this: the people who those of us pushed to society's margins (and beyond) make our cohort. Glitter is known to be shiny and unruly, easy to get and hard to be rid of. I love the drag connotations and the femme visibility of it, as well as its unmistakably queer sensibility—look only as far as glitter-bombing for proof that nothing is as thoroughly and satisfyingly queer as glitter.

And at the risk of answering the same question the same way over and over: it's not a fucking binary. It would be easier for a lot of people if it were, but it just bloody well ain't, and nothing any of us does can make it that way. Please take a deep breath. Or,

Against fashion, even tyrants struggle in vain, she thought.

Tak d?ugo byli?cie antykonformistami, a? wreszcie upad?y ostatnie normy, przeciw którym mo?na si? by?o jeszcze buntowa?. Dla mnie nie zostawili?cie ju? nic, nic! Brak norm sta? si? wasz? norm?. A ja mog? si? buntowa? tylko przeciw wam, czyli przeciwko waszemu rozpasaniu.

I'm not anti-fashion, but I've always had a bit of a punk attitude. That's important, I think. I do my own thing.

When you have nothing to lose, you have the freedom to thumb your nose at the rules set by others.

La mejor forma de defenderte, es no parecerte al ellos

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

I've learned quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning.

I want anything that breaks the monotony, subverts the perceived respectable order of things.

They have a certain gaiety to them, a power of invention, they don't care what people think. They have escaped, though what it is they've escaped from isn't clear to us. We think that their bizarre costumes, their verbal tics, are chosen, and that when the time comes we also will be free to choose. That's what I'm going to be like

It's fun to be different, but not too different!

the beige should not wear beige.

For every rule there is always an exception: this too can be depended upon.

I didn't want to be the model offspring, the incarnation of her ideas.