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Quotes about Nonconformity

I'm not the kind of guy who can be sitting around listening to Joni Mitchell, chilling. I'd rather bash my head against a wall.
— Keith Flint
A lot of people say I am different from other actors and actresses because I don't mix around with a lot of filmy crowd.
— Neelam Kothari
Rules and models destroy genius and art.
— William Hazlitt
If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered dangerous but set in place in their compartmental understandings.
— Jack Kerouac
I want to be like him. He's never hung-up, he goes every direction, he lets it all out, he knows time, he has nothing to do but rock back and forth. Man, he's the end! You see, if you go like him all the time you'll finally get it.
— Jack Kerouac
You never know what you might discover by thinking outside the box that culture, conformity, and critics have tried to impose.
— Bishop TD Jakes
The spirit of liberalism is to create free men; it is not the regimentation of men.
— Herbert Hoover
It means what you are, wanting what you want and going after it without a sens od shame. People are slaves to rules.
— Milan Kundera
I guess what I want to say to us artists and entrepreneurs is that conventional yardsticks of success don't apply to all enterprises. Labors of love count.
— Steven Pressfield
When you say that I have followers, let me assure you that I do not want followers, nor would I ever encourage the idea of following.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
I'm not going to start churning out what you expect. If you want me to be a manufactured act, you can f*** off.
— Lady Gaga
We wish to be damned with you, rather than blessed with all our brothers. Do
— Ayn Rand