Quotes About Individuality

It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.

You're made to feel ugly, and I made ugly beautiful. Just by sheer persistence. Nobody has the right to say that I am ugly, and I will not be a professional victim, you know. Sorry!

Disco sucks? You never heard that from me.

Don't assume that everyone on earth has seen every movie you have seen.

We are each on our own journey; and while that journey always interacts with those of others, it remains uniquely ours. To understand it we need the eyes of a child.

The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines.

Self-education only produces expressions of self.

Whatever helps to shape the human being - to make the individual what he is, or hinder him from being what he is not - is part of his education.

Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual.

College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.

With all the things that you could be, you never could learn how to be me.

School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.

Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school education can imagine that a million-billion people haven't already done.

By nature all people are alike, but by education become different

Education makes a straight ditch of a free meandering brook.

No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages, and arts, of his times shall have no share.

He was raised by three nurses: freedom, solitude and Mademoiselle. Together, the three of them provided him with an education. From them, he learned everything he believed it was possible to learn.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance that imitation is suicide that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion.

A true survivor is someone who, after 12+ years of being schooled, remains independent in their thinking.

I'd been exposed to alternate ways of thinking and it seriously affected the way my mother had reared me.

Education inspires the educated to think for themselves. Schooled programs the schooled to work for others.

Whenever I'm asked what college I attended I'm tempted to reply Thornton Wilder'.

If we were to lose the ability to be emotional, if we were to lose the ability to be angry, to be outraged, we would be robots. And I refuse that.

The more personal you make something, the more universal it becomes, because essentially we're all made up of the same emotional stuff.