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Daily Inspiration Quote by Zendaya

"I'm one of those people who doesn't follow trends. I set them"

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A flex like this only lands if the speaker has receipts, and Zendaya does. “I’m one of those people” plays coy at first, like she’s shrugging into a personality type, then she snaps the line shut with “I set them.” The rhythm matters: it’s built like a quiet setup and a mic-drop payoff, engineered for a culture that lives on quotable confidence.

The intent isn’t just vanity; it’s boundary-setting. In an industry that loves to frame young actresses as reactive to the machine - styled, marketed, molded - Zendaya claims authorship. “Doesn’t follow trends” is a refusal of the usual celebrity pipeline, where relevance is rented from designers, algorithms, and PR cycles. “I set them” reframes her as a producer of taste, not a consumer of it. Subtext: I’m not here to be chosen; I’m here to do the choosing.

Context does a lot of work. Zendaya’s public image has been built on a rare mix of mass accessibility and deliberate curation: red-carpet looks that read as storytelling, collaborations that feel strategic rather than desperate, and career moves that sidestep the child-star-to-tabloid arc. The line also taps into a broader shift: celebrity today isn’t only about being famous, it’s about being a brand with a point of view. In that economy, trendsetting is a claim to power - cultural, commercial, and personal - and the quote functions as a neat, repeatable mission statement for it.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Zendaya. (2026, February 16). I'm one of those people who doesn't follow trends. I set them. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-one-of-those-people-who-doesnt-follow-trends-i-184669/

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Zendaya. "I'm one of those people who doesn't follow trends. I set them." FixQuotes. February 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-one-of-those-people-who-doesnt-follow-trends-i-184669/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I'm one of those people who doesn't follow trends. I set them." FixQuotes, 16 Feb. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-one-of-those-people-who-doesnt-follow-trends-i-184669/. Accessed 25 Feb. 2026.

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Zendaya (born September 1, 1996) is a Actress from USA.

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