Quotes About Individuality

Everybody's so busy wanting to be down with the gang. "I'm conservative", "I'm liberal", "I'm conservative". Bullshit! Be a fucking person! Lis-ten! Let it swirl around your head. Then form your opinion. No normal, decent person is one thing, okay? I've got some shit I'm conservative about, I've got some shit I'm liberal about. Crime, I'm conservative. Prostitution, I'm liberal!

Prepare, take advice, read the books, then do it your way.

Certain peer pressures encourage little fingers to learn how to hold a football instead of a crayon. Rumors circulate around the schoolyard: kids who draw or wear white socks and bring violins to school on Wednesdays might have cooties. I confess to having yielded to these pressures.

its not bad to be different. Sometimes it's the mark of being very very talented.

It's somehow more comforting to imagine that one's suffering is unique, and to measure against what one doesn't know, rather than against what one does.

Truth is, I cut my hair for freedom, not for beauty.

No disrespect to your people, but we're not going to San Francisco here. I ain't wearing any flowers in my hair, Dean said.

Du bist Nummer 55«, sagt Marga. Manuela blickt auf zu der Nummer über ihrem Schrank. Eine schwarze 55. »Deine Kleider tragen die Nummer 55. Deine Schuhe gehören in die Stiefelkammer in das Fach 55, dein Mantel und dein Hut kommen unten neben dem Hauseingang in die Garderobe, Abteilung 55. Deine Waschkabine ist Nummer 55, ebenso dein Bett.« Manuela fühlte, wie sie langsam zu Nummer Fünfundfünfzig wurde.

She was doubtful, amid our toxic swirl of new namegiving; what she doubted was the reality of names, though she had to deal with them; she certainly felt that naming is seldom accurate, name and thing coincide only for a short time. She shrank from stamping any name on herself, the brand mark which decides which herd you belong to and which stable you should occupy.

I always leave that for other people to decide, because some of the things I consider to be disasters are some people's favorite movies. And that's what I like so much, is that you never know. Something intrigues somebody and means nothing to somebody else.

Nature intends all men and women to be mental and spiritual giants, and does not intend that any one should follow the will of another.

Wer sich selbst treu bleiben will, kann nicht immer anderen treu bleiben.

I don't let someone else's idea about what "40," or "50," or "60," or any other number means inform how I see myself.

When you dim your light to please others, the whole world gets darker.

Remember, they are born this way. Just as you didn't choose to be born as an empath, they didn't choose to be born with their personality. So the goal here isn't to judge them as evil or try to fix them. It is simply to avoid them, or at the very least, set up very healthy boundaries, and save yourself.

I am who I am. Whether in joy or in pain. I am who I am.

It takes courage to create your own identity, to stop believing old stories about who you are or that limit who you can be.

You are beautiful no matter what they say.

I think women are sensual, beautiful beings, and I feel empowered when I express myself sexually.

There's a witch under this hair.

I still got the nasty in me.

I don't need nobody tryin' to make me over -- I just wanna live simple and free.

Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America.