Quotes About Nonconformity

You don't have to watch 'Gossip Girl' to have an attitude.

I'm not mainstream. You gotta find me.

Everyone is told to go to high school and get good grades and go to college and get good grades and then get a job and then get a better job. There's no one really telling a story about how they totally blew it, and they figured it out.

When I graduated I wasn't sure what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want a conventional career.

I always seem to be singing against the grain.

I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge.

Me, I like to go against the grain.

When I came here it wasn't that I was anti-Music Row, but it was like I was going against the grain of what everybody on Music Row was doing, and that's what has made me successful.

It's always great to play a character that goes against the grain. Finn defies what people think when they think of stormtroopers.

I always went left to what everybody else was doing. I'm used to going against the grain.

I'm not a great dancer. I'm a great advertisement for freedom of expression. I don't care what you think. I'm having a great time.

I don't understand why everyone has to wear black, grey and white.

I have never believed in being part of any one group or camp.

I don't think I'm mainstream. I think what I am is lots and lots of different cults. And when you get lots and lots of small groups who like you a lot, they add up to a big group without ever actually becoming mainstream.

Growing up, I didn't feel cool; I didn't fit into any crowd.

I'm not very good with conventional, prim-and-proper people who are well-behaved, grown-up.

I think we should wear any look we want to! The grunge style early 1990s is one of my favorites.

The grunge scene is not what I'm interested in.

I don't think I dress eccentrically. I'm just not conservative, I guess - I dress according to what like. And I'm not a mannequin, as you can tell.

I guess I just do being a man different than some.

I was the world's worst Brownie and Girl Guide and I never did camping.

To discover the future it is not necessary to be a seer, but it is absolutely vital to be unorthodox.

Almost all had ill-grown mustaches and sported pinkish sun-bleached sandals meant for some nonexistent third gender, along with buzz haircuts that spoke of either nationalism or retardation.

Actually, however, life begins less by reaching upward, than by turning upon itself. But what a marvelously insidious, subtle image of life a coiling vital principle would be! And how many dreams the leftward oriented shell, or one that did not conform to the rotation of its species, would inspire!