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Taylor Swift Singer, Songwriter
Rebel

"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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Taylor Swift Singer, Songwriter
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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."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"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."

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Virgil Miller Newton Author, Educator
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"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."

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Thomas Merton Writer, Monk
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"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."

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"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."

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Nicolas Cage Actor, Producer
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"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."

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Kenny Smith Basketball Player
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"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."

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Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor
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"If you really want to rebel against your parents: outearn them, outlive them, and know more than they do."

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Marshall McLuhan Philosopher, Media Theorist
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"The victory over Euclidean space was not achieved by isolated individuals, but by a field of young rebels opposed to all absolutes."

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