Avigdor Lieberman Quotes

I would say that I'm pretty mainstream.

Being mainstream is fun.

I'm mainstream.

Fame or perceived success - it all comes from groupthink.

I have always been mainstream. It's so weird, because I don't see it as something negative at all. So many people see it as something negative.

I try to make myself look as normal as possible because I like people to relate to me.

The only behaviour that is truly common is to avoid doing something because you think others might consider it common.

Fashion is a social agreement. the result of a consensus of a large group of people.

I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me.

I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear.

Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally then to succeed unconventionally.

It's always seductive to know where one stands in relation to the average.

To me, I feel completely, um, utterly normal. I do everything everybody else does.

I think I was a pretty normal kid. I wasn't the prom queen, but I wasn't a freak, either.

What is social proof? Put simply, it's the positive influence created when someone finds out that others are doing something. It's also known as informational social influence.

I've never been cool.

I'll put it to you like this: You can only go as mainstream as people will let you go.

Trends die. That's the natural thing about a trend. It's natural for people to be followers and be sheep and go with a trend.

Who says what is the right way and what isn't? That is some imagined social construct that people made up to feel okay about being average.

I am a Conservative, so I don't wish to be seen as a rebel, particularly, at all.

I think most of my life I have spent trying to gain normalcy, whatever that may be.

What makes you the establishment is if you buy into it.

I understand that if someone's going to make me his idea of cool, I can't control that.

I was never the cool kid in school, and loads of people told me that I was weird, that I dressed uncool and did uncool things, that I was too nice, too happy.

In high school, it was very fashionable to be disdainful of the bourgeois suburbs, but I secretly liked them.