Oscar Wilde Quotes

The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.

I'm not out here trying putting on an act like I'm crazy. In my opinion, everyone else is crazy. They're the ones who put on an act for you, doing what they're told in front of the camera.

I just want to be normal, like everybody else." "Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?

A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity.

Don't feel stupid if you don't like what everyone else pretends to love.

I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public.

It never mattered to me that people in school didn't think that country music was cool, and they made fun of me for it - though it did matter to me that I was not wearing the clothes that everybody was wearing at that moment. But at some point, I was just like, 'I like wearing sundresses and cowboy boots.'

As soon as something becomes 'trendy,' I go off it. I hate the idea of being a sheep and just following a look because I've been told it's fashionable. Individuality makes the world a much more interesting place.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

Fitting in is boring. But it takes you nearly your whole life to work that out.

I want to be able to wake up and feel like, 'Eh, I feel like wearing this!' Or talking to that person. It's so much more work to have to stay in that box to fit in, 'Mean Girls' style.

There are those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity.

Everyone is being told by society to talk this way, to dress that way, to be this person or to be that person, and it's so important to just maintain a sense of self.

I like the freedom America has. In Japan people tend to think too much about others' opinions and how to be like everybody else but to Americans it seems more important to be who you are and find your own way.

I wasn't like the rest of the kids. I was an artist. Living in a black society, when you're raised around a bunch of boys who plays sports and chase girls, there's this perception of masculinity that's super hard to fit into. I wasn't the stereotype of that like a lot of my peers were.

People tell you what you have to wear and do, and I've never been a fan of it.

I want to be sure I'm being myself. I don't want to follow something because someone's like 'do this, it's popular.'

How can we choose to selectively follow what we find comfortable and attack anybody who tries to break free from the norms that we choose to set?

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

The reason they want you to fit in... is that once you do, then they can ignore you.

If you don't have any individuality and you're happy just being one of the girls (or boys) be my guest. I'm not the fashion police. I won't fault you.

Our modern ideas of 'functioning' through things are really quite inhuman. We have this idea that no matter what is going on we still have to color between the lines, act normal.

To be like other people is to be unlike ourselves.

People want you to be ordinary.

An air of fashion, which is but a badge of slavery ... proves that the soul has not a strong individual character.