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Nonconformity Quotes

"To be great is to be misunderstood. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people."
George Bernard Shaw
"Every good entrepreneur is inherently a rebel, questioning authority and convention"
Sean Parker
"I don't let no one tell me how I should be."
Dave Chappelle
"They laugh at me because I’m different. I laugh at them because they are the same"
Kurt Cobain
"We’ve all forgotten how to be original"
Peter Jackson
"Don’t be different just for the sake of being different. If you see it differently, function that way. Follow your own muse, always"
Morgan Freeman
"The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is."
Robert H. Schuller
"Only the true runs against the grain of placid habits."
Martin Heidegger
"If other people do not understand our behavior—so what? Their request that we must make sense to them can be just an attempt to control us"
Erich Fromm
"If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right."
Woody Allen
"I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it."
Clint Eastwood
"I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood."
Walt Whitman
"That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time"
John Stuart Mill
"The optimal way to do things requires a willingness to break a few rules."
Paul Graham
"I am not interested in being liked."
Alexander McQueen
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