Paul Orndorff Quotes

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

I think I've always wanted to be different from everybody else. I get really annoyed when I do something and everybody else does it too, or if I'm doing something that everybody else is doing.

Yeah, but if you're not doing what everyone else is doing then you're going to be misunderstood. People are going to wonder why you're trying to be different; it's just a natural instinct.

I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That's just so not me.

I'm going to do everything I can to keep from being mainstream.

If you have your own agenda and your own style and you don't easily conform to what the masses are doing, you're looked upon as being difficult. Whereas, I think of it as just being an individual.

Sometimes it's nice to be a bit different.

I always wanted to be different. If it was different I liked it. And it wasn't because I was just trying so hard to be different, it's just by nature.

I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture.

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.

When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else.

I don't want to be normal. I want to be something else.

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

Conforming is not cool.

I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.

Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different.

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red.

At a certain point, to remain slightly tangential to wherever I was became a way of 'being Tony': by not being anything that everyone else was.

As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.

I don't want to follow the herd.

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.

Rather be dead than cool.