Rejecting Conformity Quotes

Texans and independent voters like to vote for somebody who is going to buck the status quo, and isn't going to do as he is told.

Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world--and never will.

The conventional idea of beauty is so boring.

While out on the perimeter, women discovered the freedom of badlands. They were curiously free to invent, without having to liberate themselves from the forms and rewards of the cultural norm.

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

It's like, 'You're not allowed to change. That's not fair. We like you like this.' But I don't. So let me expand and express myself.

I'm never going to grow up. Staying young is what it is all about for me.

I get to say 'no' to a lot of things. That, for an artist, is crazy.

Nobody says you have to be shackled to tradition.

You need to rebel to see the other options and to get a much richer, fuller sense of the world. And it's only once you've worked through that and seen through that that you can come back and accept who you are. You have to try all the other options.

Wherever I see people doing something the way it's always been done, the way it's 'supposed' to be done, following the same old trends, well, that's just a big red flag to me to go look somewhere else.

I want to break that typical Asian female stereotype. There's this standard where they're all calm. I want to break that.

Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.

Drag resists conservatism in the most basic way possible, and also in the most effective way possible, because it's improper when it comes to looks, which is everything in conservative systems.

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

I'm actually quite proud of the fact that we made a success of ourselves in a donkey jacket and DMs, without any thought to sexualising what we were doing.

I'm aware that I don't look like the traditional or the stereotypical type of Hollywood starlet and that is OK with me.

Like Dilip Kumar, I've never run after money but only after good roles and that's why have always rebelled against those directors who wanted me to do buffoonery in the name of comedy.

Everyone's supposed to stay in their lines and be neat. 'You're a rapper. You're supposed to rap, carry a boom box, wear chains, and go to the club - that's all you do. What are you doing collecting art? What are you talking about? Wait a minute, you're getting out of the zone.' People hate when people cross lines.

Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun.... there are millions of suns left, You shall no longer take things at second or third hand.... nor look through the eyes of the dead.... nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.

You're made aware of what the industry is and what you need to conform to; I don't fit that, and I'm never going to.

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

Correcting it, I don't know; just shedding the light of day on it is a first major step, being one of the earliest generations not to just accept the words.