Rowan Williams Quotes

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.'

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

I am just reflecting the times. I can't ignore them.

I think pop culture underestimates people. The message is, 'Being yourself is the worst thing you could possibly be.' But people are still attracted to it.

I'm like, 'Yeah, I could afford braces, but why should I change myself to be what everybody else wants me to be when I'm OK with who I am and I'm happy with who I am?'

I know that many people kill off their real personality just to fit into this society, but why do we have to compromise? I never understood that. I decided to try to be myself and to live by my own values rather than those of others.

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

Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!

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

We're all weirdos, and people want to work so hard to fit into society, but it's like, no matter what you do, you're never going to be what society depicts as what's perfect, because that's not real. The only point that you have to make is that 'I'm being me.'

I've tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.

It's nice to stand out and not have to conform to all the beauty standards that just don't even make sense anymore.

Being an artist and a human in this world always means confronting people who make you feel like you have to act according to their rules.

People aren't allowed to be themselves in snooker.

I don't want to be seen in a way where all I can do is what people expect of me.

People will always try to change you. They will always want you to be who they want you to be. That's fine because I'll always be exactly who I want to be.

The main problem I've always had with fashion media is that women are encouraged to copy other women.

I definitely feel that society sets expectations for transgender people to fit in and makes us feel as if we have to dress a certain way so that we blend in with everyone else. But I believe all transgender individuals should be able to wear whatever they want and not worry about fitting in.

There's not a lot of room for thinking in popular culture; there's not a lot of room for being conflicted.

I've made no pretence to be a modern man at all, ever.

For that, one has to drop all the masks, one has to risk many things, particularly respectability. That is a bribe by the society. It will give you a Nobel prize and it will give you many honours; it will do everything to make you feel great, if you can fulfil one condition: if you are obedient, obedient like a robot, then all respect is for you. Then the society will make you a great hero, but there will be no grace, no beauty, no freedom, no truth, no being; you have committed a real suicide.

There are many people for whom 'thinking' necessarily means identifying with existing trends.

We're the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody's afraid to be thought in any way different from everyone else.

Well, I try my best to be just like I am, But everybody wants you to be just like them, They sing while you slave and I just get bored