Rebel Quotes - Page 29

• I never felt like I had to rebel against my convent upbringing, because it was comparatively regular.

  Sharon Horgan

  Felt, Upbringing

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• You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.

  Patrick McGoohan

  Simple, Islands, Desert

  Interview with Warner Troyer in Toronto for the Ontario Educational Communications Authority, March 1977.

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• Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.

  Russell Brand

  Children, Fighting, Conformity

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• True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Dreamer

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2007). “We”, p.6, Modern Library

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• When Claude Debussy studied at the Paris Conservatory from age ten to age twenty-two, many considered him a rebel because of his treatment of dissonance and his disdain for the established forms. He reputedly turned to a fellow student during a performance of Beethoven with the words, "Let's go. He's starting to develop.

  Claude Debussy

  Two, Paris, Age

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• We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms.

  C. S. Lewis

  Arms, Imperfect, Creatures

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