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I always seem to be singing against the grain. -- Steven Morrissey
I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge. -- Wyclef Jean
I've never had any real big blow-ups. I go against the grain. Hey, it's life, I'm happy. -- Jermaine Jackson
I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world. -- Elijah Wood
I have always been very rebellious and gone against the grain. I've always challenged the standards set before me. -- Amber Heard
To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'. -- Joey Ramone
I was always the weirdo who wanted to have an egalitarian service in synagogue and felt I was always going against the grain. -- Susan Isaacs
Bouncing a sitting president requires conscious action, a national decision to redirect the country's course. This cuts against the grain, and that's why incumbents have a natural advantage. -- John Podhoretz
In theatre, there's the director, the writer, and below them the actor. In film, it's the actors who are most important. That goes against the grain for me. -- Anne-Marie Duff
I started doing up-and-down strumming, basically to keep time and to play fast. As time went on, I started realizing other guitar players couldn't do it. I always went against the grain. -- Johnny Ramone
But we didn't have the financial structure, like the right attorneys, the right managers, the right accountants, and we were going against the grain of what black entertainers is supposed to do. -- Solomon Burke
I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That's how I've gotten to where I am. -- Beyonce Knowles
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical. -- Alan Perlis
When I came here it wasn't that I was anti-Music Row, but it was like I was going against the grain of what everybody on Music Row was doing, and that's what has made me successful. -- Ricky Skaggs
I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right. -- Ziggy Marley
I am a leader, so leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right. -- Ziggy Marley
I'm secure in who I am. I don't need the validation of those that would say, you have to be a certain thing in order to be accepted. I'm comfortable going against the grain if I need to. -- J. C. Watts
I always seem to be singing against the grain. -- Steven Morrissey
I'll run against the grain till the day I drop? -- Les Claypool
To go against the grain is the secret of bravery. -- Dejan Stojanovic
I've never had that fear of going against the grain. -- Kevin Costner
I don't go against the grain because I'm a contrary person. -- Kevin Costner
The pleasure of authenticity exists only against the grain of society. -- John Zerzan
The largest opportunities are found in ideas that go against the grain. -- Omar Hamoui
Nothing ventured, nothing gained, sometimes you've got to go against the grain. -- Garth Brooks
Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that's been a place of hope. -- bell hooks
You can't go against the grain of the universe and not expect to get splinters. -- C. S. Lewis
Run against the grain of a nation's genius and see where you get with your laws. -- Walter Lippmann
The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life. -- John Updike
This is what happens when you go against the grain of truth. You get splinters later on. -- Augusten Burroughs
I can't help but go against the grain, I suppose it is in my fabric to be a rule-breaker. -- Victoria Chang
I think there's something important in going against the grain, and perhaps finding value in things that aren't necessarily institutionally recognized. -- Kehinde Wiley
I always not only want push the envelope in my career but I also have an itch for going against the grain. -- Bernard Hopkins
Flows that go against the grain with a story so compellin' I should mind The People's Court, snatch the mic from Doug Llewellyn -- Tash
I'm the rebel totally going against the grain. I always want to do the extreme. I want to get as many people looking as possible. -- Tupac Shakur
Persistence in prayer for someone whom we don't like, however much it goes against the grain to begin with, brings about a remarkable change in attitude. -- F. F. Bruce
Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it. -- Jean de la Bruyere
The most refined form of sexual attractiveness - as well as the most refined form of sexual pleasure - consists in going against the grain of one's sex. -- Susan Sontag
It's not always a happy ending when sometimes you say things that you think, and it goes against the grain of the larger group. It doesn't always turn out. -- Cher
Creativity is at the heart of every stupid idea creativity and stupid are interchangeable because everything inherent to that kind of creativity requires breaking away from the norm, going against the grain, and leaning into risk and fear. -- Richie Norton
Creativity is at the heart of every stupid idea . . . creativity and stupid are interchangeable . . . because everything inherent to that kind of creativity requires breaking away from the norm, going against the grain, and leaning into risk and fear. -- Richie Norton
I think that's why I gravitated toward slightly broader... ummm, more conceptual kinds of movies, Underworld and Van Helsing. That was as much as I could actually give. But you're actually more of an animated figure. It does go against the grain, as an actor. -- Kate Beckinsale
I was talking to one of my aunties at Christmas and she said she didn't think it was ever in my nature to go against the grain, that I was always a good boy. I think she was right - I did always want to be good. -- James McAvoy
It is not logical for art to be logical. Art goes against the grain of the times as readily as it goes with it and at the very same moment. Instead of seeking the nearest exit, art responds to a new situation by uncovering a labyrinth of problems. -- Harold Rosenberg
I guess I much prefer the path of the contrarian: the guy who goes against the grain a bit. The careers of the people who I admire deeply - like the Coen brothers and Soderbergh - don't repeat themselves, and they make radically different films at times, and I think that's wonderful. -- Joe Carnahan
My father, who was a cabinetmaker, told me, 'Wood has a grain and if you go into the grain, you have beauty. If you go against it, you have splinters - it breaks.' And I took that as my view of life. You have to follow the grain - to be sensitive to the direction of life. -- Christian Louboutin
I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting. -- Donna Mills
Learn to sustain yourselves; lay up grain and flour, and save it against a day of scarcity. -- Brigham Young
Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly. -- Homer
Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation. -- Raquel Cepeda
It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life. -- Kurt Vonnegut

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