Vivian Stanshall Quotes

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

I don't like to be different; I would like to be the same.

When you stand out in a small town or at work, or in your peer group, whatever it is, it feels really awful. Certainly, when you're growing up, you want to be normal. You just want to fit in. Then you realize that maybe fitting in is, in some respects, quite ordinary. I think it's good to put a positive spin on being slightly unique.

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.

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 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.

I have always been in the minority, even when I was in the majority.

I am just like everyone else.

You don't always have to be popular and do things everyone else is doing.

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

I just understand that I'm supposed to be one of those people that disrupts the flavor a little bit instead of being part of the same sound as everyone else.

We're fighting to be ourselves in a world that's trying to make us like everyone else.

I think, my entire life, I was a bit different. And I didn't think I was different; I just kinda always stuck out.

I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.

I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.

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

When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.

I wish I were kind of normal. It would be so much more simple.

I never felt any different from anyone else though.

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.

I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

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

Well, sometimes when you say you want to be like everybody else, you're really saying that you're not.