"The one place where I'm allowed to rebel, and the one place where I'm allowed to not worry about censoring myself is my music."
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"People talk to me a lot about, "Why don't you ever rebel?" And I feel like I do rebel. To me, rebelling is - is that rush you get when you sing a song about someone and you know they're in the crowd."
"The nonconformist and the rebel say all manner of unanswerable things against the existing republic, but discover to our sense no plan of house or state of their own."
"Our own unresolved authority problems from our youth sometimes get transferred to our youthful patients, because we are still "covert adolescent rebels." In subtle ways, we encourage the adolescent patient to rebel towards parents, school authorities, and society in general."
"I love it when the director says, 'Rebel, just do whatever you want.' I'm, like, 'Yes!"
"Solitude is so necessary both for society and for the individual that when society fails to provide sufficient solitude to develop the inner life of the persons who compose it, they rebel and seek false solitudes."
"The connection economy rewards the leader, the initiator, and the rebel."
"College is the only place where you can rebel by doing exactly what people in authority tell you to do."
"My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica."
"I must rebel against the idea that millions of Indians, who were Hindus, the other day, changed their nationality on adopting Islam as their religion."
"All women are rebels."
"I was a real rebel. I got expelled."
"How do you rebel in a family of rebels? That's the age-old question. I guess I could have by not going into the arts, but the thing is, I couldn't do anything else."
"To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship."
"I am the fool in this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne."
"It is the cruelest of all ironies that moderns imagine themselves to be (abstractly understood) "individuals," because in actuality moderns are "types," abstracted and self-abstractive victims of a process of stereotyping that afflicts even would-be rebels and anarchists."
"If you really want to rebel against your parents: outearn them, outlive them, and know more than they do."
"Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it."
"The despairing soul is a rebel."
"The victory over Euclidean space was not achieved by isolated individuals, but by a field of young rebels opposed to all absolutes."