Jeff Foxworthy Quotes

I've always balked at anything that feels like a clique, even if it's not always in my best interest to do so. I like each individual, fedora-wearing hipster - it's just the greater gestalt that rubs me the wrong way.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?

I know I'm never going to be a big pop star, because I'm not willing to conform.

It's a bit weird; everybody is trying to be different, but then they're exactly the same as whatever mob they hang out with.

Someone was always trying to put down my individuality and personality, making me sing Mozart arias that were nothing to do with me.

I'd rather sit at home than be a part of a popular show and be a piece of furniture.

My father actually went to college, and my mother went to nursing school, so, you know. I wouldn't... They were actually too square and right-wing to be hip, too well-educated to be white trash, too sexy to be square. They really didn't fit any mold. They weren't really hipsters. They were just - they were two of a kind, those two.

There is one characteristic of the present direction of public opinion, peculiarly calculated to make it intolerant of any marked demonstration of individuality. The general average of mankind are not only moderate in intellect, but also moderate in inclinations: they have no tastes or wishes strong enough to incline them to do anything unusual, and they consequently do not understand those who have, and class all such with the wild and intemperate whom they are accustomed to look down upon.

To be different is not necessarily to be ugly; to have a different idea is not necessarily to be wrong. The worst possible thing is for all of us to begin to look and talk and act and think alike.

If you want to be different nowadays, just act normal.

We all have to fight to maintain our unique style and taste in a world that would have us conform.

No one was normal, not really.

It's very conventional to say that you're a contrarian these days.

It's boring to be like everybody.

perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.

One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism.

Maybe I'm completely different from everyone else.

If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.

The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform.

It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

To be like other people is to be unlike ourselves.

Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most. His very "uniqueness," "separateness" and "differentiation" make him an alien, not only in his native place, but even in his own home. Often more so than the foreign born who generally falls in with the established.

According to one influential wing of modern secular society there are few more disreputable fates than to end up being 'like everyone else' for 'everyone else' is a category that comprises the mediocre and the conformist, the boring and the suburban. The goal of all right-thinking people should be to mark themselves off from the crowd and 'stand out' in whatever way their talents allow.

People want you to be ordinary.