Nick Diaz Quotes

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.

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

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?

A man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses as he likes to dress. But in doing that he is acting in a perfectly natural manner. Affectation, in such matters, consists in dressing according to the views of one's neighbour, whose views, as they are the views of the majority, will probably be extremely stupid.

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.

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.

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

Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

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

Conforming is not cool.

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.

Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.

The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

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.

I'm not scary. It's scary for people to see someone being nonconformist.

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.

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.

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

I tried to be really nice and like the things other people liked and do the things other people were supposed to do, and what you find out is that they're going to bully you anyway. And I thought, 'You know what? If I'm going to get bullied anyway, I might as well get bullied for making a difference in the world.'

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.'

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

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

I don't have any desire to rebel and be something totally different from what I am.

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