Tamora Pierce Quotes

I wasn't a good rule-breaker when I was younger.

I do situations and make fun of authority and life.

We are not rebels. Rebels defy authority and break laws at will.

Defiance through compliance.

The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted.

I'm not really rebellious. People think I am, but I'm not.

I wasn't that kid where if you told me 'No,' I was just going to do it anyway.

I was talking to one of my aunties at Christmas and she said she didn't think it was ever in my nature to go against the grain, that I was always a good boy. I think she was right - I did always want to be good.

I was tired of playing the goodie-two-shoes.

It wasn't really part of the program in the Perot family. Rebellion was not an option.

I think I've been called edgy - but in all honesty, there is a safety in what I do because I'm always the idiot. Unless you're just listening to buzz words and not taking into account the context of the situation, you see I'm always the ignoramus.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

I was not cut out to be a rebel.

All comedians are, in a way, anarchists. Our job is to make fun of the existing world.

I was probably the only revolutionary ever referred to as "cute.

Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.

… a controlled disrespect for authority is essential to a scientist.

He no play-a da game. He no make-a da rules.

There are .. two choices: obedience to institutional authority or radical dissent from it.

Irreverence is an essential part of our culture.

I don't know what I would have done to rebel. I don't know what I was rebelling against.

I'm not rebellious. I try to be rebellious, but I don't walk around being rebellious for no reason.

I've always had a problem with doing what I'm told.

I've never really been a rebellious teen.

I'm definitely not a rebel.