Quotes About Individuality

I have millions of likes and follows on all platforms but turned it off as I don't want to be liked because everyone is doing it, I want to be liked or hated by my substance I sow and produce.

If I were a musical instrument, I would be… Drums as you can beat me all you want to but I still will do things my own way regardless of peer pressure.

There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm to happy being myself.

Roughly fifty percent of procedure in a Marine basic-training program is about disconnecting the young American boy from his concept of himself as a unique individual, a lone operator.

We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.

I've had strong opinions probably since I was born. It makes you unpopular, but what can you do?

He whipped out his sheet, then pulled it over himself and wrapped it tightly around his face like an old woman in a shawl. 'How do I look?' 'Like the ugliest shanky girl I've ever seen,' Minho responded. 'You better thank the gods above you were born a dude.' 'Thanks.

I'm programmed so that only you two can see my old Aura. Everyone else sees an entirely different guy. Boom. Amazing, I know.

We are our thoughts and memories and personalities.

Stephen, Stephen, Stephen. My name is Stephen.

You're special somehow. Never forget that. And never forget how much.

just like that, Thomas was alone

and Bobette Duck. Unbelievable. Might as well be called Stinky and Butt-Ugly.

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.

My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.

Beauty can come in strange forms.

Don't be so goddamn proper. Don't be such a fucking saint.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.

And am I answerable that thoughtless and unprincipled men exist whose shades of contenance may resemble mine?

My name is James Edward Franco. Ted is a nickname for Edward. That's what my parents called me. I also got 'Teddy Ruxpin' a lot. It just got to a point where I got sick of it, so when a teacher called out 'James Franco' my junior year of high school, I didn't correct her.

If you care about what others think of you, then you will always be their slave.

Leonard asks me if there's anything I need to know before he dies, I think about it for a minute, turn to him, say what's the meaning of life, Leonard? He laughs, says that's an easy one, my son, it's whatever you want it to be.

In a totally sane society, madness is the only freedom.