Tara Stiles Quotes

You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

I was the punk outsider who nobody messed with. I was fearless. At 16, I graduated and moved out.

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 am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.

I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog.

I do what I want. It's because I got booed and picked on that I really don't care anymore.

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

I could care less about what people think. I'm a Devil Without A Cause.

The whole 'bad girl' thing allows me to mess up sometimes. And I have freedom to say more of what I want to.

I've done truth to power all my life. It's got me into trouble, but who cares?

I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience.

I don't worry. I don't doubt. I'm daring. I'm a rebel.

I, I am my own woman. I have not been, quote, 'bred' to look the other way. I look at that man back there in the green room straight on, eyes wide open, and I look at him with an open heart.

When you follow your heart, you're never supposed to do things because of what you think people might say. You do it for the opposite reasons.

America needs some honest men who dare to say what they think, not what they think people want them to think.

I’m not going to leave like a whipped dog. Period.

My choices in life have been unconventional, and that's my business. But I do want to live responsibly and truthfully without hiding.

I have huge respect for whistle-blowers, people who stand up against their bosses and losing their careers, just for truth and justice.

I guess I've kind of had an attitude my whole life.

I don't mind standing up for what I believe in.

I appreciate someone who stands out and stands up for what he believes in, because that's what I'm trying to do.

Fight for what is true. What is true is enough.

I learned that you should never be afraid to speak your mind especially when you know it's right.

Being a Deol for me is to be honest; walking with my head held high and never having to bow in front of injustice.