Quotes About Individuality

I've never felt any sense of kinship with other comedians; they've always seemed too needy.

Life is best when lived your way and not as a negation of what you don't like.

I don't really look at myself as a role model. And I just am the way I am and if people want to look up to me, they do. By no means do I like to give a negative image either.

I think it's interesting to know that being a geek isn't the negative thing that it used to be.

For a really long time, I thought being different was a negative thing. But as I grew older, I started to realize we were all born to stand out; nobody is born to blend in.

I've been arrested several times. I've been known to dress in ludicrous fashions. I've also built a career out of negative reviews.

It's a clique that I've never been a part of. It's not like I identify them in a negative way.

I like hanging out with me, and I've accepted everything about me good, bad whatever it is. That's why I'm able to, that's why no one can tell me anything negative about myself.

Just because I'm sassy and have a mouth on me doesn't mean I'm coming from a negative place.

Most difficult is the labeling by other people that models are empty-headed bodies. I think if you look for negativity, you can find it anywhere.

I've always taken care of myself, and I'm a non-conformist, so I don't accept the negativity that comes with birthdays.

You have to stop registering size with negativity. The biggest body can be absolutely beautiful.

I was the freak who moved into the nice neighborhood.

When I was a young mother at home with a two year old and a five year old, living on the Eastside in one of those neighborhoods where all the houses look the same, where all the cars look the same and the lawns look the same, I was writing in secret.

If we all went to Google right now, or went to Yelp right now, we'd all get the same results, and that seems really, really broken to me. Foursquare should understand the neighborhoods I've spent a lot of time in, and the restaurants that I went to once but never went back to.

People look at me, and I dress a little unusually and they think, 'Oh you must be from California.' Of course, people in California think, 'Oh you must be from from Mars,' so, you know, your next-door neighbour is not necessarily the person that you are going to make a connection with.

I don't have famous neighbours and if I did, I'd avoid them. I don't live the jet-set.

I don't love being thought of as Neil's barnacle. It's a strange shadow to follow.

My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.

I don't consult anyone - not my mother, not my father, anyone - about my work. And I must add that neither Dad nor Mom interfere in my work.

We as black people are not a monolithic bunch. We are not all the same, and neither are women. Instead, we are all individuals who have these extraordinary stories to tell and share with each other that will enrich all of our lives and help us all become more ourselves and better people.

I want to speak up and tell you that mascara and clothes don't make you cool, neither do name-brand handbags, but being a leader can.

The best thing about Mick Jagger is how uncalculating he is. He does what he wants to do and it feels right. He's not a dancer - neither am I.

I always seemed to disappoint them. They expected me to be different than Henry or exactly like Henry. I was neither.