Contemporary Quote by David Bowie

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do.

— Mandy Moore

Even if you're frustrated, how do you express yourself? There's no subculture like back in the day.

— M.I.A

I is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can…

— Charles Horton Cooley

I tend to write society as I see and understand it.

— N. K. Jemisin

I don't see myself as subversive. I just don't necessarily buy what people tell me initially.

— Colin Cowherd

I'm fundamentally, I think, an outsider. I do my best work and feel most braced with my back to the wall. It's an odd…

— Virginia Woolf

I go through the motions of living in society

— Wendy Rose

I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.

— Peter Ackroyd

You think I alienate myself from society? Of course I alienate myself from society. It’s the only way I know of not being constantly…

— Joshua Ferris

I like always to be contemporary. I like to deal with the things of today.

— Mikis Theodorakis

I'm a traditionalist. I have certain values I live by.

— Danny Aiello