Riddick Bowe Quotes

Yeah, but if you're not doing what everyone else is doing then you're going to be misunderstood. People are going to wonder why you're trying to be different; it's just a natural instinct.

I tried to be different; I didn't want to be like everybody else.

Never follow the crowd.

I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red.

At a certain point, to remain slightly tangential to wherever I was became a way of 'being Tony': by not being anything that everyone else was.

When everybody goes left, I'm gonna go right most of the time.

I wanted to be different.

I've always been proud to be different, I've always stood out like a sore thumb and I always have not given a damn.

If you follow the same path as everyone else you're just going to be like everyone else.

I'll run against the grain till the day I drop?

For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure.

I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

I was not typical. Whatever typical or normal is, I was somehow separated and different.

All my life I've been rowing against the tide. What can I do? It seems I was born that way.

I can show up at a Goldman Sachs conference wearing a Judas Priest T-shirt - and I have - while everyone else is wearing the same dress.

I'm like the black sheep of my family.

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

That's a good way to live, go against the wind.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.

How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.

I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.

I was always different from all the other kids, and I was doing things that nobody else did or seemed to have any interest in.

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

I think I've always wanted to be different from everybody else. I get really annoyed when I do something and everybody else does it too, or if I'm doing something that everybody else is doing.