Quotes About Individuality

It's good to have each other, but you also need to have your own people, your own experiences.

New Yorkers love the bigness- the skyscrapers, the freedom, the lights. But they also love it when they can carve out some smallness for themselves.

But as i've told him a million times, when it comes to true dancing, it doesn't matter what you look like-it's all about the joy you feel.

Don't get trapped into thinking people are halves instead of wholes. TINY: People are halves? LYNDA: They're not trying to sell you on it yet, but believe me, they will. The idea that two is the ideal, and that one is only good as half of two. You are not a half, and you should never treat someone else like a half. Agreed?

suffuse , v. I don't like it when you use my shampoo, because then your hair smells like me, not you.

After all, people are always separable.

Hi. I'm Thom. With an 'h'. I tell him, I'm Gnorah. With a 'g'. The 'g' is silent. Like 'gnome.' Really? Thom says. No, not really. I have an 'h' too. At the end. Used to be just N-O-R-A but when I had the H legally added to my name after my dad failed to sign up Norah Jones when he had the chance. I don't like him to forget these things easily.

I'd like to remain at that one delicate remove, so you can get to know me without the distraction of other people's noise.

if i told her about liking guys, she would probably stop trying to date me, which would be a huge plus, but i also know i'd immediately become her gay pet, and that's the last kind of leash i want. and it's not like i'm really that gay, i fucking hate madonna.

Most babies come into the world crying or gasping or snotting. Not Tiny Cooper. He comes into the world singing.

They have left the first stage of romance—the rhapsody of us. Where everything is you-me or me-you or a giddily tentative we. Now him and her are asserting themselves, each given a private, pensive depth. Within the rhapsody of us, Elijah could think, I don't really know you, but I will. Now he is not so sure.

Living within the definition of his own truth, just like me. He knows who he wants to be. Most people our age don't have to do that. They stay within the realm of the easy. If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.

Don't get trapped into thinking people are halves instead of wholes.

You need to love him. I don't care who you thought he was, or who you want him to be, you need to love him exactly as he is because your son is a remarkable human being. You have to understand that.

sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore

We're not gay. We're eight.

But have them tell us that every person needs to be with another person in order to be happy, and we nod along like it's the most obvious thing in the world. But there's no reason for it, is there? It's not a proven truth. It's just some thing that our culture has come to spin itself around, mostly so we'll procreate, and we're the dupes who fall for it over and over and over again.

The only thing I am allowed, the only thing I am given, is myself. It is enough, but only barely.

You can tell a lot about a person from the pages he or she chooses to journal on.

If you were a country, I said, what would your national anthem be? I meant a pre-existing song -- What a Wonderful World or Que Sera, Sera or something to make it a joke, like Hey Ya! (I would like, more than anything else, for my nation to be shaken like a Polaroid picture.)

So I'd like to remain at that one delicate remove, so you can get to know me without the distraction of other people's noise.

A mismatch is the only kind of match that's worth making.

Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving.

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