Clare Balding Quotes

If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.

Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking your mind, standing up for what you believe in, fighting for another paradigm, not letting people talk you out of what you know to be true.

I don't mind not being cool.

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.

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

I came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago. I never really fitted in. I don't want to fit in. And now people are buying into that.

I'm not trying to fit in with nobody. I'm just me.

If I were like a lot of other people, then it wouldn't be fun; but since I'm like me, it's okay.

I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it.

In order to be who you are as a human being, you need to be willing to upset people.

I'm tired of ignoring that I march to a different beat.

I've never given a damn. A seven-foot man who dresses as a woman as a job is not interested in what other people think.

Everyone has a freak flag inside them. Whether they're brave enough to show it is another matter.

I've never wanted to be like anybody else. I'm me.

To be yourself is truly a revolutionary act, and I think more and more people should try it, because it's gotten me a pretty cool life.

I like to be around people that's not afraid to be different.

Be yourself, be an individual - people are scared to be themselves.

In the end, by having a point of view, by taking a stand for things you believe in, you're ultimately always going to offend people. That's good. It's certainly more important to take a stand on some thing and offend people, than to be careful all of your life and have everyone approve of what you do. Or, as my psychiatrist likes to say, better to live one year as a tiger than 100 as a sheep.

Weird itself, even in the dictionary, is just something that is different and unexplainable. A weirdo is someone who follows their heart. Im definitely weird, aint nothing wrong with that.

I'm not everyone's cup of tea, but that's the great part: I don't have to be.

...in all the woods and forests, God did not create a single leaf the same as any other... People go against nature because they lack the courage to be different.

To live in accordance with how one thinks. Be yourself and don't try to impose your criteria on the rest. I don't expect others to live like me. I want to respect people's freedom, but I defend my freedom. And that comes with the courage to say what you think, even if sometimes others don't share those views.

At the end of the day, you have to be yourself, you have to say and stand for what you believe in, you have to be willing to get up and go ahead and take the slings and arrows and just try to persist through them, because it's apparently an inevitable part of our American democracy.

I don't want to be a copy of anyone else.