Christina Aguilera Quotes

The conformist understands that the reason of his desperate look for conformism is that he realises he is different and that he never accepted his difference.

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

There's a constant anxiety that comes from having an innate sense of self, yet existing within a homogenised, aspirational culture.

I wish I were kind of normal. It would be so much more simple.

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

I just want to be like other people that are normal.

Well, sometimes when you say you want to be like everybody else, you're really saying that you're not.

A lot of people go through life trying to perform normalcy, and I think you can relate to that.

Don't worry about fitting in - it's completely over-rated.

People don't want to be diverse, or they're scared to be diverse. People just dress a certain way to fit in but sometimes being outside of the box is the cool thing to do.

I have been told too much - to talk less, to keep my opinions to myself, to not sound intelligent - all this was told to me so that I could fit in. But I never thought I fit in anyway. So if you don't fit in, at least stand out.

I don't want to change; I just want to be like everyone else. I'm nothing special.

People sometimes are afraid to be who they are because of other people's ideals.

Everybody is in a hurry to decode you in a certain way, and then they expect you to adhere to their definition. How can they possibly do that when you yourself are finding it hard to discover yourself?

When you're younger, all you want to do is fit in, and then the older you get, you don't want to fit in, you want to stand out.

I don't want to be liked by everyone.

Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who wanted a great individualist as a friend?

If you want to look like the people next door, you're probably smothering yourself into your dreams.

In these days the young folks is all copy-cats, 'fraid to death they won't be all just alike; as for the old folks, they pray for the advantage o' bein' a little different.

The fact was, by the time she got to high school, being weird and proud of it was an asset. Suddenly cool, Blue could've happily had any number of friends. And she had tried. But the problem with being weird was that everyone else was 'normal'".

I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups.

It never mattered to me that people in school didn't think that country music was cool, and they made fun of me for it - though it did matter to me that I was not wearing the clothes that everybody was wearing at that moment. But at some point, I was just like, 'I like wearing sundresses and cowboy boots.'

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.