Quotes About Individuality

Sometimes a nickname is used instead of the real name. But a nickname may offend either the one named or the parents who gave the name.

You should live hoping you are going to offend people, because then you're doing something.

You can only make the best thing you can make, and if it offends purists, or angers certain critics, you can only have done your best.

I am never offended when I see the drag-queens dressed up like me.

I don't think I've spawned a nation of Davinas. We have Kylies and Britneys but Davinas have missed out. Should I be offended? That is the question.

You can't always worry about offending people.

No offense, but I don't get the whole concept of arranged marriage. I'd rather know the person who I'll settle down with.

My whole life, I was thinking of names for kids, and I had a couple of kind of different names. I just didn't want him to be one of the crowd, with a - no offense to people with these names, but I don't want him to be a Bob, Dave, Harry, Larry.

I don't really compare myself to a lot of other running backs - that's no offense to any other running back, but just the fact that I can see and avoid hits.

Actually, the original nickname that I was told - it scared me to death - was Heavy G. I think the last thing you want to be known as is Heavy anything. No offense to Heavy D - rest his soul. Worked for him, wasn't really my bag.

I didn't think I was going to school to be a doctor - no offense, but that wasn't me.

What is offensive is different for everyone.

I don't want to hurt anybody or be offensive. But I don't want to not be me.

I will offer a choice, not an echo.

I was depressed about the roles that were on offer, so I had to make my own stories.

There are a lot of great actresses out there. You learn to appreciate each one for what they offer.

I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer.

Nobody is more individual than you, so be confident with who you are and what you have to offer because everybody has got things to offer.

Each human being exists because there's something they have to offer for the evolution of the universe that only they can fulfill.

You have nothing to offer if you're just some machine actress.

I have more to offer than music that is automatically dance.

It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field.

I've always wanted to play a normal woman, and I think I have been offered these parts where I play a kook because I'm not the idea of what a normal woman is.

For whole swaths of people, that map of, 'Come along this way, come to college, do this and that,' isn't offered.