Quotes About Individuality

A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless.

Eventually every man gotta face the problem of tryin' to figger if it's worthwhile to prove that he is himself.

I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.

Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.

Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus.

If by saying that all men are born equal, you mean that they are equally born, it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences

All men are created equal. After that, it's up to you.

All men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with a mighty urge to become otherwise.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.

All men are by nature born equally free and independent.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.

. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

If you try all different styles that are in vogue, I think you con yourself. Me, I just stick by my guns; I don't want to play out of another man's bag.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

It does matter that it's the Olympics. I just did it my way. I'm not a martyr, and I'm not a do-gooder. I just want to go out and rock. And man, I rocked here.

The span of a man's life - that is nothing. But what a man makes of that span - that is something. A man must make his own meaning for life. Meaning is not automatically given to life.

No one got rich on a government program. Do not choose to be a common man. You can be uncommon.

We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship.

To be able to do this job in the first place you've got to have a bit of an ego.

Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds.

The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.