Kameron Hurley Quotes

I have been told too much - to talk less, to keep my opinions to myself, to not sound intelligent - all this was told to me so that I could fit in. But I never thought I fit in anyway. So if you don't fit in, at least stand out.

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 always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

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

I think pop culture underestimates people. The message is, 'Being yourself is the worst thing you could possibly be.' But people are still attracted to it.

I've seen a lot of good things and a lot of the bad of what Hollywood can bring. At the end of the day, I've found that when you try and fit in, that's a way to go crazy; you kind of lose yourself. I'm sometimes the different one at the table, but I don't care.

I feel like when I try to fit in, it comes across as not genuine, and that is not good. I'd rather just do me and have people say, 'Oh. That's interesting,' than try to fit in.

Rather be dead than cool.

Don't try to stand out that much for prom. Be yourself.

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

Don't worry about fitting in - it's completely over-rated.

When you're younger, all you want to do is fit in, and then the older you get, you don't want to fit in, you want to stand out.

He who fears to be out of the mode does not deserve to belong to himself.

I don't want to be liked by everyone.

I tried to assimilate and mix myself in with everybody, but I still stood out because of my mannerisms, the way I spoke, my interests, the way I walked, all those things that make us stand out in a crowd. Then I got to a point where I stopped caring, because people were calling me names no matter what, so I thought I might as well just do what I wanted to do.

Or about how when you're a child, to stop you from following the crowd you're assaulted with the line "If everyone jumped off a bridge, would you?" but when you're an adult and to be different is suddenly a crime, people seem to be saying, "Hey. Everyone else is jumping off a bridge. Why aren't you?

Don't know which one is worse, doing your own thing or just being cool.

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

The conformist understands that the reason of his desperate look for conformism is that he realises he is different and that he never accepted his difference.

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.'

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

I'm like, 'Yeah, I could afford braces, but why should I change myself to be what everybody else wants me to be when I'm OK with who I am and I'm happy with who I am?'

I'm different, and I'm not afraid to be different.

Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.

When I first got into the league, I tried to fit in. Now I don't care.