Dan Reynolds Quotes

I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

I want to be able to wake up and feel like, 'Eh, I feel like wearing this!' Or talking to that person. It's so much more work to have to stay in that box to fit in, 'Mean Girls' style.

If there's intelligence behind an opinion, then I'm all for expressing it, but I would never just start a fight with someone for the sake of it - that's just not me.

It's impossible to go through life not offending people. All you have to do is basically have an opinion on anything, and you're gonna offend people.

There's a constant anxiety that comes from having an innate sense of self, yet existing within a homogenised, aspirational culture.

I was very pushed to look a certain way and act a certain way, and it wasn't me, but I played by their rules to get my foot in the door.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

I am sure there is a right way and a wrong way and in today's life, there are many different rules of being politically correct.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

I've seen a lot of good things and a lot of the bad of what Hollywood can bring. At the end of the day, I've found that when you try and fit in, that's a way to go crazy; you kind of lose yourself. I'm sometimes the different one at the table, but I don't care.

I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

I've learned a lot about how people have to fight through their whole lives just to be themselves.

If taking one-self seriously as a woman means committing to a life of grooming, pumicing, pruning and polishing one's exterior for the benefit of onlookers, then I may as well leave my unwieldy rucksack to the top of a bleak Scottish hill and make my home there under a stone, where I'll fashion shoes out of mud and clothes out of leaves.

I don't want to hurt anybody or be offensive. But I don't want to not be me.

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.

You get to an age where you get tired of hiding behind whatever people think is correct.

Missionaries must not ridicule the pagan idols, nor their manner of worship; but calmly reason with them always showing the utmost benevolence; that they ought not to expose the innocent customs of the country, but as far as possible become all things to all men.

This is the problem with the world today: Nobody wants to take risks, to risk being themselves.

Society loves to put bubbles up there and pop them, and I resent it. I'd rather expose myself myself.

Everyone is being told by society to talk this way, to dress that way, to be this person or to be that person, and it's so important to just maintain a sense of self.

I don't think that the next generation should fear just being who they are rather than confirming to an expectation of what they are meant to be.

Tennis is fake. We have real characters, but they don't dare to be themselves, and the code of conduct has a lot to do with that.

A lot of Asian girls love being basic because it's safe. But the thing is, a lot of my fans are those girls, and they want to be bolder, but there's no one they could look up to and be like, 'It's OK to be that way.'

In today's world, where everybody is so anticipating the next great thing and everyone is so ready to shut the door on people, I don't really care what the world says.