Contrarian Behavior Quotes

The French find ways to disagree with us just to show that they are able not to agree with us.

I overheard one of my friends say, 'If Amari scores, I bet he's real happy and he'll get real excited.' I just so happened to score, and since I heard him say that, I was like, 'Nah, I'm not going to get really excited.' And for some reason, that felt like the right thing to do. I been the same way since.

Cats always pick the laps of the people who don't like them.

I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation.

If someone starts agreeing with me, I don't like it. Out of pique, I become something else.

In life, I take my decisions and stand by them. Some decisions may have proven to be not the best, but I have learnt from them, and I've never repeated a mistake again. If someone tells me to turn left, I will go right! I could not have been taught a lesson in any other way rather than by going through it.

When all combine in every way to make everything easier, people will want difficulty. I conceived it as my task to make difficulties everywhere.

I remember someone said to me, "Never stand up when you can sit down, never sit down when you can lie down, never lie down when you can be asleep." Those are bits of advice that I haven't taken, really. I've done the opposite of them, but they have stayed with me.

There is a bit of me if I'm pushed in one way I might bounce back and go the opposite.

I typically do the opposite of what people think I am going to do.

They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black.

When you're eating something and someone asks 'Is that nice?' No it's really revolting - I always eat stuff I hate.

If I hear, 'Be afraid of Tehran,' I'm like, 'I'd better go to Tehran.'

My tastes in music tend to favor anything my kids don't like, out of natural antipathy amplified by a sort of malicious glee.

My decision to become a lawyer was irrevocably sealed when I realized my father hated the legal profession.

It's funny because there's a part of me that, if something is popular, I sort of become a defiant teenager about it. Like, 'Oh, I'm not gonna like that because everybody likes it.'

I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.

To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular path.

Sometimes they do things to make me do the opposite of what they think, I think, they think, I am going to do.

Feminists, I hasten to add, are not all bad. In fact, they are an ideal bellwether, an invaluable aid in helping me form opinions on issues that I don't have time to keep up with. If the feminists are for it, I'm against it; if the feminists are against it, I'm for it.

I'm my own worst enemy. I like to eat, and when people tell me to do something I do the opposite.

I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.

The moment where you know the thing you want is ridiculous and pompous and a terrible thing to want anyway. The direction in which you're headed is not the direction you want to go, yet you're going to head that way a while longer cause that's just the kind of person you are.

It's great to be with William Buckley, because you don't have to think. He takes a position and you automatically take the opposite one and you know you're right.

I'm usually the kind of person where if someone tells me, 'Oh my God, you have to watch this show. It's amazing,' I kind of want to go against it and not watch it. But for 'Stranger Things,' I couldn't resist. I had to watch it.