Glenn Greenwald Quotes

I'd rather sink trying to be different, than stay afloat like everyone else.

The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.

I always try to be a trend setter. That's what I always tell young people when I'm giving them advice. To go with their heart and don't follow the trends.

People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.

I feel like everyone should dye their hair a weird color. If you hate it, you can just dye it back.

I love Lady Gaga. She's not afraid to take risks and be herself.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

I really think that being yourself, being original, being outside the box is starting to be appealing to people.

I don't mind being unlikely. I'd rather that than be predictable.

Now I'm old... maybe I'm still an eccentric hippie. There's a wonderful freedom in the eccentricity - you can go places, you can be wacky, and you don't have to be constrained. I think that's why people are eccentric - eccentricity is a weapon... and it's great!

Where's your will to be weird?

I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.

I wear anything I feel like. If I want to put on a pair of Converse with a pencil stuck through them, I will.

Don't you dare alter your inner freak.

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

Having seen TED from a distance, I always thought if ever there was a place for someone like me, the outcasts, people who maintained who they are despite being told what they were, it was TED.

We can raise our sights high when we're willing to break free from being conformists who live a conventional life simply because we are too afraid to express our uniqueness.

I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost.

I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.

I get a kick out of not being ideal. I think it's awesome. That's entirely the point. And I think my creator is quite a character for letting that be.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.

I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.

People are so scared to really voice who they are. They want to be politically correct. Just scared to see what other people's perceptions are.

I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business.

Discover your own style. Don't try to repeat what has already been written - have the courage to do your own thing and don't be afraid to do something different.