I'm really happy to be me, and I'd like to think people like me more because I'm happy with myself and not because I refuse to conform to anything.

- Adele

Popular kids don't necessarily know who they are because they're so busy trying to conform. It's the outcasts who are more attuned to who they are. They're more self-aware, more real.

- Alexandra Robbins

I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.

- Billie Joe Armstrong

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.

- Bill Vaughan

Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.

- Caitlyn Jenner

I don't like the idea of fitting into a mould so as to conform. What I like is the danger, the difference - being unpredictable.

- Emmanuelle Seigner

Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

- Gustave Flaubert

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

- James Reston

This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

- James Reston

You're made aware of what the industry is and what you need to conform to; I don't fit that, and I'm never going to.

- Jessie Cave

I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.

- M. Night Shyamalan

I am not trying to conform to an unrealistic model of beauty. I am, however, being proactive in being the healthiest I can be.

- Octavia Spencer

I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform.

- Sandra Bullock

I just don't conform very well.

- Shelby Lynne

Once you have a Down's syndrome child, you can't conform. In a way, you're free.

- Sally Phillips