Rebellious Quotes - Page 9

• If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.

  Erica Jong

  Sex, Creativity, Voice

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 28, 2015

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• How true it is that, sooner or later, the' most rebellious must bow beneath the yoke of misfortune!

  Madame de Stael

  Yoke, Bows, Sooner Or Later

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• I'm not really rebellious. People think I am, but I'm not.

  Tom Sizemore

  Thinking, People

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• It's odd. Though I've spent years working with and creating images, I feel most comfortable expressing myself through writing. I'd been in denial about this for many years. At school I was highly lauded as having the potential to write one day, but being a typically rebellious and misguided teenager I opted to study art. Ironically language has pervaded all the work I have done - from my first forays into an art practice many years ago to my work with typography and book design.

  Michael Salu

  Art, Teenager, Book

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.

  Samuel Adams

  Country, Men, Feelings

  Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1773-1777: 1773-1777”

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• I think a lot of people, when they think about the house, they think of the print. But when people think about Emilio Pucci, I want them to think about this really, really hot girl, so my biggest job is to give her a face and an identity - and I do that by trying to associate that kind of print that people have in their minds with a kind of girl who is free-spirited, rebellious, a little bit rock 'n' roll, and who has a lot of energy, who is up.

  Peter Dundas

  Girl, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wasn't doing it to shock anybody or to be rebellious or to get attention making "Heart-Shaped Glasses" with Marilyn Manson. I was more proud of that than anything because it took a lot of strength and bravery to put myself out there like that. It was a risk. I'm glad that I did it because usually the best things I've done have come from the biggest risks. Thirteen was a risk and that was amazing.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Bravery, Risk, Attention

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• I started acting when I was 9. I did smaller parts here and there as a kid, and then as I grew older I started resisting it, because I didn't like the idea of being, at the time, number four of the Skarsgård actors. So in high school I majored in science and was like, "Maybe I'll do something rebellious and become a doctor."

  Bill Skarsgard

  School, Kids, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The fifties were pretty rebellious, a pretty rebellious period, around that time. And it was preceding the whole zoot suit thing which I think really contributed to a lot of anxiety, to a lot of frustration, a lot of blaming. And it just like boom, it was very destructive for us as a people, that right away put us on like we had to defend ourselves on every level, every moment. We seemed like we always had to be on guard.

  Willie Herron

  Frustration, Thinking, People

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• There is no one more talkative than Cubans, Cubans express their feelings, there's nobody more rebellious and revolutionary than a Cuban and I say that without chauvinism.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Feelings, Revolutionary, Cuban

  "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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• Emily Dickinson liked to shock people. She liked to break rules. There was a kind of rebellious freedom in her inner world.

  Christopher Benfey

  People, World, Kind

  "Poet Emily Dickinson Was A Much Loved Baker". "All Things Considered" with David Greene, kclu.org. December 27, 2016.

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• I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Beauty, Art, Blessed

  The Doctor's Dilemma (1911) act 4

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• We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

  George Bernard Shaw

  Church, Why Not

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• Slamdance actually is indie and rebellious. Sundance obviously felt threatened.

  Yony Leyser

  Sundance, Threatened, Felt

  "William S. Burroughs: A Man Within". Interview with Paul Hawkins, www.outsideleft.com. March 2010.

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• I've always been a very rebellious, philosophical person, so my mother set the foundation for my appreciation for nature and my empathy for other people. But then, being a sort of rebellious, philosophical thinker, I'm always looking for new ways to shake things up. So I feel like I'm really lucky to be alive in a time where there's so much opportunity to disrupt and shake it up. It's sort of a combination between that and having the foundation that my mother gave me.

  Adrian Grenier

  Mother, Appreciation, Philosophical

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• I didn't have this rebellious streak in me. To me, I'm a product of circumstance.

  Brad Katsuyama

  Circumstances, Streaks, Products

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I always found Louise Brooks interesting. She was an icon of the silent - film era, and I knew she'd grown up in Kansas, and that she was smart and rebellious and sharp - tongued.

  Laura Moriarty

  Smart, Silent Films, Icons

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Believe, Contradiction, Contradicting

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• Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Love, Hate, Liberty

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.4481, e-artnow

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• The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly operates revolutions in our way of life, terminates an epoch of infancy or of youth which was waiting to be closed, breaks up a wonted occupation, or a household, or style of living, and allows the formation of new ones more friendly to the growth of character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Brother, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.22, Xist Publishing

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• Sundance claimed to be "rebellious" on all of their programs, but they are not. Most of the movies at Sundance were multi-million dollar pictures that were already guaranteed a theatrical release.

  Yony Leyser

  Dollars, Program, Release

  "William S. Burroughs: A Man Within". Interview with Paul Hawkins, www.outsideleft.com. March 2010.

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• It is easier to run a revolution than a government.

  Ferdinand Marcos

  Running, Government, Politics

  1977 In Time, 6 Jun.

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• I think skateboarding is better now in terms of the amount of facilities and the amount of support young skaters have - including encouragement from their parents. There was definitely an element to it when I was younger that was exclusive and kind of rebellious because most parents didn't want their kids skating. They thought it was a bad influence.

  Tony Hawk

  Encouragement, Kids, Thinking

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• The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

  Samuel Adams

  Men, Reality, Law

  Samuel Adams (1946). “Samuel Adams: selections from his writings”

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• We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.

  Samuel Adams

  Liberty, Events

  In J. N. Rakove 'The Beginnings of National Politics' (1979) p. 92

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