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I think that certainly the artists of the '40s, '50s and '60s were fighting a very conformist society, which didn't give them enough space to live or create, and they were bucking all kinds of spoken and unspoken rules.

~Anne Roiphe

Topics: Artists Certainly Conformist Create Enough Fighting Give Kinds Live Rules Society Space Spoken Them Think Unspoken Very Were Which I Think

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There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

~Ayn Rand

Topics: Conformist Cowardice Fashionable Level Lower Than

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What always made me proud - almost blushing with pride - is that Francis Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg all told me that 'The Conformist' is their first modern influence.

~Bernardo Bertolucci

Topics: Almost Always Blushing Conformist First Francis Influence Made Martin Me Modern Pride Proud Scorsese Spielberg Steven Steven Spielberg

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The conformist understands that the reason of his desperate look for conformism is that he realises he is different and that he never accepted his difference.

~Bernardo Bertolucci

Topics: Accepted Conformist Desperate Difference Different He His Look Never Reason Understands

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I wanted to have a reaction from the audience. I wanted to be able to talk to somebody, and not be talking just to myself. That's when I did 'The Conformist,' 'Last Tango in Paris,' etc. And I found it was incredibly rewarding, something new.

~Bernardo Bertolucci

Topics: Able Audience Conformist Did Etc Found Incredibly Just Last Myself New Paris Reaction Rewarding Somebody Something Something New Talk Talking Tango Wanted

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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

Topics: Another Anything Conform Conformist Hates Prevailing Standard Than Who Worse

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The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

~Colin Wilson

Topics: Accepting Average Average Man Conformist Cow Disasters Man Miseries Rain Standing

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School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.

~Dan Savage

Topics: Conforming Conformist First Gender Goes Kindergarten Preschool School Very

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Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around you.

~Donald Tusk

Topics: Around Communism Conformist Evil Exceptional Fool Had Hideous See Something You

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I am a believer and a conformist.

~Georges Rouault

Topics: Am Believer Conformist I Am

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