Ashleigh Brilliant Quotes

I always wanted to be different and do things differently. I was a pain in the neck. I was challenging everything you wanted me to do and challenging people in school.

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.

I don't care much about conforming.

I am not a normal man.

I am enormously uncool. I've made a cottage industry of being uncool. And I'm fine with that.

I was born a leader, never a follower. I never felt peer pressure. If the group goes left, I go right.

I think there are some people who have this thing where, from the very beginning, some part of them rejects convention.

I don't want to be normal, I don't want to grow up.

I dont like doing whats expected. Ive always done best when Ive listened to my instincts rather than following convention or doing what other people think I should do.

Wanted: a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say 'No,' though all the world say 'Yes.'

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

I'm bad at doing what I'm told. I'm a born free thinker.

I don't hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don't like bourgeois values. I say you find your own way to live.

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

Well, he's just the same guy who in other aspects of his life would be very late to a trend.

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.

Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

My eccentricity became direction.

I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

I love being not cool.

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.

I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.