Rob Schneider Quotes

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.

I don't know why so many artists talk about the mainstream's problems from the fringe. I think, unfortunately, it's almost like our education makes us too safe and terrified to step into the world.

The East Coast, and certainly Boston, has a provincial quality to it that makes it harder to bust out and move up. Try to be too different and they'll pull you down.

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

The Pentagon isn't a place that champions individuality and innovation.

We've all forgotten how to be original.

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.

All too often, legacy management practices reflexively perpetuate the past - by over-weighting the views of long-tenured executives, by valuing conformance more highly than creativity and by turning tired industry nostrums into sacred truths.

As far as innovation goes, I can tell you that Korean students are reluctant to step out of line. If I ask questions, nobody raises their hands - not because they don't know the answers, but because they don't want to step out of line.

Most people lose their natural creativity at about five or six - but not me.

When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo.

A lot of guys spend their lives saying no because it's an easier way to keep your job.

The hazing experience and then the subsequent participation in the group forces its members to maintain the status quo and traditions at all costs. It demands mindlessness and unquestioned loyalty, resulting in boring people who have little ability to think for themselves or have an opposing viewpoint from those who have the most social power.

Conservatism, I believe, is mainly due to want of imagination.

France has chosen to ignore the great transformation of the 21st century and cultivate a [culture of] status quo and rigidity.

Nothing is more difficult, in general, than to make a nation perceive anything as true, or seek its own interest, in any manner but as its forefathers have opined and acted.

You couldn't advance in a finance department in this country unless you thought that the world was flat.

Studios are often very nervous of things they don't recognize, by which I mean things that haven't been done before, and therefore, they take a really original idea, and they recognize the originality, and then they try and make it look like something they recognize. So they try to turn it into something far more procedural.

The cookie-cutter liberal, the standard operating procedure liberal, is really a giant ignoramus. I mean that seriously. They're really ignorant.

Status quo just means that everyone's doing it. It doesn't mean that this was divinely ordained, and of course this is the right decision.

Most racist people are like sheep. They are people without backbones.

We, as a society, have become very fixed in our ideas of how things were, how they are, and how they should be.

I'm always up for collaborating with people who are slightly leftfield.