Quotes About Individuality

I'm a big lipstick girl - I'm old school that way.

Some people love 'Roots;' some people hate 'Roots.' Some people only like the old stuff. Some people want me to play like I did when I was 15. I can't do that all the time. I try to bring a little bit of that into some stuff that I do, but I can't just be that only. There's much more to life than that.

We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do.

When going out on a date, I think there are certain old-fashioned manners that I still enjoy. I don't mean that as an anti-feminist comment. I just mean it as a pro-women comment. There must be a place for us to exist and our differences to exist without one taking away from the other.

But a sense of - in old-fashioned speak - 'I am OK, I do deserve to be here, I can do what I want to do, I can be myself, I can express myself' is really important as you go into the working world.

The older I get, the more I embrace my own idiosyncrasies.

As I grow older, I feel like my authentic self has been able to shine through more and more, and people can see that.

Even as a small child I never felt that I should have to compete with anyone - even my older brother.

I do have an older brother! But you know, he and I have always gotten along. We've always had different aspirations.

My family is all musicians - my dad plays drums, my mom plays flute, my older brother plays drums, my little brother plays drums and piano. For some reason, I didn't get the memo, so I just play bass.

I can't decide if I'm a hippie or elegant older woman, a farmer's wife, a crazy person.

The idea that a man should be wearing something different and more eccentric is obviously the oldest idea on earth.

I was born with the genetic condition called 'achondroplasia,' which I inherited from my dad: my mam is average height, and my dad is also a little person. I am the oldest of five children, and I am the only one who is a little person.

When we home schooled my oldest, Jasper, in eighth grade, I saw how empowering it is for a child to learn in their own way. That rebooted my thinking about education.

I am the oldest of three girls and the only one not named after one of my father's ex-girlfriends.

What I need to do is establish myself as Oliver Burke and not as the new Gareth Bale. To do that I need to work hard in La Liga.

Although, you know it's been really nice to wear the Olympic kit, I'm looking forward to wearing non-sports, feminine clothes.

When I was seven, these kids in the alley behind our house in Omaha called me Freckleface Strawberry. I hated my freckles, and I hated that name. I thought it was humiliating in the way that only a seven-year-old could hate it.

I'm so Omaha that I wear 'OMAHA' on my trunks.

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

People are gonna like who they like, there's nothing you can do about it. Just go out there, do what you do best, play your game and try to become a better person on and off the court.

At the end of the day, everything I've been through on and off the court, I'm the only common denominator.

I am not an actress. I can only play me - on and off the screen.

Here's the thing about hair; I think most people think that I have Lego hair, like I can just take it on and off in one piece, and that's not quite the case - although pretty close.