Quotes About Individuality

I mean, seriously, what lady of taste could resist a shiny green head of hair like mine?

We cannot help where we are born or how we are raised, Tel Hesani said. But we can reject the twisted beliefs of those around us if we need to. Our loved ones and elders don't always know what is best. A man should listen to his heart and make his own decisions about what is wrong and what is right.

You're like everybody else: some people like you, some people don't, and some have no feeling about it one way or the other.

If you aren't normal, it's because you're tougher, saner, cooler than normal.

Just you, darling. Lanky brunettes with wicked jaws.

I think you probably know what you're doing and whatever you do is your own business.

Character: our habitual way of operating. HOW we are is WHO we are!

No man had ever knocked little Richard down. But of course Ammm was not a man.

They sport haircuts that were apparently administered by a blind heroin addict in the men's room of a Bulgarian disco in 1978.

At that moment I was sure. That I belonged in my skin. That my organs were mine and my eyes were mine and my ears, which could only hear the silence of this night and my faint breathing, were mine, and I loved them and what they could do.

my feeling is that if you're not self-obsessed you're probably boring.

Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

You're breaking out of character, again.

Not many songs can fend off evil. But the right song with the right voice can be a weapon; anyone who's listened to music through headphones while riding the subway or plowing angrily through a rush-hour sidewalk knows how it can and separate you from them, allows you to say to the teeming masses that you are this and they are that.

Then why are you talking about exhibitionism? It's a ridiculous term. Someone wants to celebrate their existence and you call it exhibitionism. It's niggardly. If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.

None of this I'd mine. My father is not mine- not in that way. His death and what he's done are not mine. Nor are my upbringing not my town nor its tragedies. How can these things be mine? Holding me responsible for keeping hidden this information is ridiculous. I was born into a town and a family and the town and my family happened to me. I own none of it. It's everyone's.

So many people who wanted no part of all this. That's what's new. There used to be the option of opting out. But now that's over. Completion is the end. We're closing the circle around everyone—it's a totalitarian nightmare.

I think my teeth provide a necessary respite from the eerie perfection of everyone else's.

My feeling is, if you're not self-obsessed you're probably boring.

The lie behind the buzzword of 'diversity' could not be made more clear: if you don't conform, then you don't count as 'diverse,' no matter what your personal background.

There is no worse flaw in man's character than that of wanting to belong.

You do not understand -- no accomplishment overcomes the stigma of being different. [...] I try not to think about it and cannot eat my supper or nothing. I didn't understand it at first. But now I do. You are not different in the way difference is acceptable but in another, bigger way.

I always wanted to be somebody. I should have been more specific. —Lily Tomlin

Some say that you should turn your face from the light of the moon. They say it makes you mad. I turn my face towards it and I laugh. Make me mad, I whisper. Go on, make Mina mad. I laugh again. Some people think that she's already mad, I think.