Iris Chang Quotes

I think I'm better at playing difficult than I am at being normal.

Everybody kept saying, 'I just don't know how to sell you.' I'm odd. I don't think you can put a finger on me.

I am not normal.

Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there's always one brave enough to stay.

My life is anything but typical.

I didn't want to do something typical.

There's nothing wrong with being a little unusual.

I am not a normal man.

With most people, strangers are not only enemies, but inferiors.

It is normal to hate what we fear, and it happens frequently, though not always, that we fear what we hate. I think it may be taken as the rule among primitive men, that they both fear and hate whatever is unfamiliar.

I've always been the opposite of mainstream. I march to my own beat. It's the only way I know.

People find it difficult to accept something that is sincere and unique.

Both racism and homophobia come from a sense of the presumed and the unknown.

This is why we have racism, really: because people are confronting the unknown, and they don't like that.

I'm not your cookie-cutter athlete, and that scares people. People don't know how to take that.

We've always been more... weird compared to most bands, girls or no.

I'm the one that's used to being not normal.

I always liked different things, rare things.

I recognize out of the box that I am not the establishment candidate. There's nothing about me that would have anybody draw the conclusion that I am somehow preordained for anything.

'Ambulatory' is my favorite word to use because it never gets a laugh.

I'm a quirky dude, man.

I don't play a regular guy at all - never.

Everyone is so weird in L.A. that if you're somewhat normal, it's exotic.

I've always identified with the misfits.

You tend to be afraid when someone seems foreign to you. But if you aren't careful, that can lead to bigotry.