Quotes About Individuality

I'm not somebody who likes to show off my cleavage, and I don't dress up for the papers.

There are many people who parachute and many people who climb. I'm the only person who does both.

I parade in next to no clothes every day. It's hard not to compare yourself to other people, but I think everyone is different, and that is something we should be celebrating.

I won't be in gay parades - I don't think they need them. I believe in class - I believe that people should have a bit of class about them.

You really do have the license during fashion week to wear the things that you wouldn't necessarily wear to dinner, because it really is a fashion parade.

I definitely didn't want to be that person that came out and was like, 'O.K. I'm going to lead every parade.'

I don't go home to parades.

I don't want my work or me, as a person, to be held up as a paradigm because, as Richard Dawkins knows, if people hold you up too much, you're only ever going to disappoint them by being a human.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

None but himself can be his parallel.

It's not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say, 'Read,' but a writer can read too much and be paralyzed. Or, 'Don't read, don't think, just write,' and the result could be a mountain of drivel.

I think creating of any sort, whatever line you're in, is paramount - you can be an architect, you can be a banker, you can be anything - I think that when you create, you're closest to God and yourself.

I just live my life how I live as a person. I certainly am not, like, a saint or an angel by any means. I'm not anything like that. But I live just how I live. I mean, I have a little paranoia, but that's about it.

When 'Paranoid' came out, how many other 'Paranoids' came out? No shots, just real.

I am no parasite.

But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.

How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.

I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.

I haven't lived my life through my daughters. Some parents devote everything to their children, which must be so hard, and it's very beautiful. But I'm a working parent, so I've always kept my own life.

For some people, becoming a parent does change them, but it never changed me.

What I want is to have people's notion of adulthood no longer be so defined by being a parent. There is some kind of conventional wisdom that you're not really a mature person until you become a parent.

You have to see, kid by kid, what their needs are and what kind of parent you need to be for them.

I think there is a moment in every parent's life where we realize that we have lost ourselves a little bit. It's a moment of looking in the mirror and going, 'I need to put on some lipstick.'

I want people to get from 'Pariah' that it's okay to be you and not to check a box as a parent or child.