Quotes About Individuality

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

I'm lucky: I always wanted to be an actor. But I never felt the need to be in with the crowd. I didn't mind being on the outside. I was always looking forward or upwards, not in.

The Paddy Stone dancers were all upwards of 5ft 6in and stunningly beautiful. I was stocky, tough-looking and 5ft 3in. So I became determined to create my own troupe.

I once termed my sense of dress as 'urban farmer' and that became a perennial source of bullying from my friends, particularly my brother.

When I was growing up, David Bowie was my idol. I grew up in inner-city London, and he was from Brixton, which is even more urban.

I don't feel that electronic music has to stand on the back of urban artists or anyone else to be recognized. It's great music.

You cannot act a color. Do not tell me I'm acting black, because I'm not. I'm acting whatever you want to call it - urban. I don't even have a name for it. I just call it 'me.'

I happen to be unique. I'm a Republican that represents an urban area.

My personal style reflects my music. My music and how I dress is just how I express myself; it's just me. My music is urban pop, and my style of dressing is urban but still girly. I like that combination. The contrast is very nice.

I never called myself an urban artist, but that's what I was classed as, and I almost tried to live up to the name instead of who I really was.

Being faith-driven, being a hip-hop artist, being artistic in an urban context - all of those things make you unique, and you put yourself on the outside of what's considered the norm.

Bomber jackets, for me, are the new blazers. They're something I can wear with suit pants or slacks - or I can go really urban with it. I think, as men, we don't have the little black dress that women do to go from day to nighttime, but the bomber can be the LBD for men.

I do play tennis in shorts, I have driven across the length and breadth of the country from Khardung La pass to Kanyakumari in my beloved Ambassador car, and I did compile my 100 Lyrics book, inspired by Lyrics by Sting. I don't subscribe to any definition of an Urdu poet.

If you choose to be fearless, then be fearlessly authentic not an imitation of someone you envy.

I shall think soon that what people say is true: every woman is possessed by her own peculiar devil of curiosity

And that makes us (black women) feel like we have spokespeople, because everybody we encounter feels they have a piece of you and can tell you how to live your life

Gender roles suck, " says Swift Fox.Then you should stop playing them, thinks Toby.

Let those who love me follow me'Cora Pearl, on being the very first person to dye her hair red in 1864

Those who treat the muslim woman not as an individual but as a symbol either of Islamic chastity or secular liberalism are guilty of the same sin : the objectification of women

That all men are equal is a proposition to which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.

One is not born a woman - one becomes one.

Most men who run down women are running down one woman only.