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Quotes About Individuality

The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
There is no such thing as an average person. They really are guidelines for people to grapple with the unknown, and we can always surprise expectations.
~ Daniel Tammet
I really think the mind of someone who hasn't been welded into place by their work or studios or actors or this whole society is a wonderful mind to work with, so I'd like to do a big picture with an unknown director.
~ Joan Severance
Eventually, the more I listened and became obsessed with singers, I feel like the more I realized that I had my own little thing that I could do. So this is why I just became obsessed with looking for new singers, unknown singers, people that maybe have been forgotten, and really checking them out and analyzing what they do.
~ Cecile McLorin Salvant
Of the thousands of people, celebrated and unknown, who have sat before my camera, I am often asked who was the most difficult subject, or the easiest, or which picture is my favorite. This last question is like asking a mother which child she likes the most.
~ Philippe Halsman
I buy unknown, lower-name brand jeans. I don't care about the name brands, if I look good in the jeans I don't care who made them.
~ Barbi Benton
I love something new and I'm always willing to step into the unknown when it comes to hair.
~ Stacey Solomon
You should do what you enjoy doing, what brings you passion. As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
~ J. Michael Straczynski
We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.
~ Charles Bukowski
As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
~ J. Michael Straczynski
Everything I do is me. I don't like taking ideas from people unless they're the G.O.A.T.
~ A Boogie wit da Hoodie
I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
In stand-up it really helps to play yourself and talk about your own feelings. You cannot fail to be original if you're just talking about what you think about X, Y and Z. Unless you've got a twin brother who's also a stand-up.
~ Eddie Izzard
Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.
~ Joss Whedon
There are two kinds of designers: ones who are very happy locked in their office surrounded by their coterie. The last thing they need to do is to go to a trunk show; they'd go running for the hills. I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it?
~ Michael Kors
We have lost sight of nature's role in the whole process of maturation and growing up. Parents and nature are a team. And nature can't go on without the parental role of being able to foster individuality and viability unless the attachment needs are fully met.
~ Gordon Neufeld
I do believe in living out your own time, unless it's absolutely impossible, which it is for some people.
~ Alan Bates
I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.
~ Louisa May Alcott
I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.
~ Mae West
I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde.
~ Patricia Neal
I'll watch a movie only if it meets the following criteria: 1. It has to have at least two women in it. 2. Who talk to each other. 3. About something besides a man.
~ Alison Bechdel
Women should have choices, and women should feel good in what they wear.
~ Phoebe Philo
Most of the women I saw on TV didn't seem like people I actually knew. They felt like ideas of what women are.
~ Shonda Rhimes
I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.
~ Madeleine Albright