Quotes About Individuality

My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'

He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic.

To my father, art had no restrictions. He was a true 'American Primitive.' He greatly enjoyed sketching and photography, carrying a camera with him whenever he could.

How strange, when your father's wearing women's clothes and platform shoes, that a pair of loafers looks incredible.

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

I have a lot of memories, but I don't go into capitalizing on that. Something's got to be my own. I'm not doing the record to sit here and broadcast my memories of my father.

My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.

What makes my father different is the fact that he calls himself mad.

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.

I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.

At Murry Bergtraum High I wanted to be as different from my father as possible. So I acted out in school, I was very anti-authority.

He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.

The similarities between me and my father are different.

You can't compare me to my father. Our similarities are different.

My father has always been supportive of my individuality.

It was the first rent in the holy image of my father, it was the first fissure in the columns that had upheld my childhood, which every individual must destroy before he can become himself.

You don't want to do what your parents want you to do. You got your own things. And the whole idea of getting a job because of who your father is - that didn't isn't right.

I feel that through my father's music I've found my own voice in my own playing.

My father felt that children should make their own way.

Just looking at me, I am a Black man. Born and bred, through and through. But I am also a lot of things. I am a father. I am a husband. I am a Christian. I am a comic book geek and I'm a creator.

Let your child be the teenager he or she wants to be, not the adolescent you were or wish you had been.

I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.

Everybody I knew, practically, was a journalist when I was a kid - my father, all of his friends. I never wanted to be like those people.

My father hated rock and roll - hated it. My first real argument with my father was over the Rolling Stones. And he never, ever liked rock and roll. He just liked me.