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Quotes About Individuality

I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing.
~ Penelope Cruz
I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.
~ Penelope Cruz
And, she thought uncomfortably, what would happen if people did not recognize you? Would you know who you were yourself? If tomorrow they started to call her Vanessa or Janet or Elizabeth, would she know how to be, how to feel like, Charlotte? Were you some particular person only because people recognized you as that?
~ Unknown
Where you some particular person because people recognized you as that?
~ Unknown
No two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is -- in other words, not a thing, but a think.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
But it is arrogance that keeps one alive: the belief that one can choose, that one' choice is important, that one is responsible only to oneself. Without arrogance what would we be?
~ Unknown
We are only here for a little while, and our bodies belong to ourselves and no one else.
~ Penn Jillette
There is no god." I've said that sentence on Glenn Beck's TV show in front of his live audience at his studio in the Texas Bible Belt. I've told Republicans that I like immigrants. I've told Democrats that I dig rich people. I've told sane people that I like lawyers. But
~ Penn Jillette
Women do cosplay, of course, and thank god for that, but they don't go to the local coffee shop dressed as cheerleaders, fuck god for that.
~ Penn Jillette
The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people's expectations. The tongue of the original self is the language of the heart.
~ Penney Peirce
From the very beginning it seemed very clear to her that if you were going to succeed in life you succeeded on your own terms, in your own style, you capitalized on your own strengths, you learnt to camouflage your own weaknesses and you didn't get caught up in anyone else's. And Fleur was going to succeed.
~ Unknown
Morfar hade sagt att varenda människa hade några speciella egenskaper som ingen annan hade. Och om man bara använde dem så kunde man försätta berg .
~ Unknown
What's your dog's name?" "Oh, he ain't got no name." "Why's that?" "I don't like names," the man said, looking down at his pet. "How do you call it?" Jim asked. "Call it?
~ Percival Everett
cada uno a su casa y Dios a la de todos
~ Unknown
Y vos? -Yo soy cosa mía.
~ Unknown
Contrary to a great number of priests and other godly types, queer does not mean castrated.
~ Perry Brass
Fashion is the art of making the unimportant indispensable.
~ Perry Brass
Learn to detest things that do not allow you to be yourself, and embrace things that make that self larger, more thrilling, and voluptuous.
~ Perry Brass
Realize the complicated specials of what we call the "inferiority complex." In other words, what, Miss Thing, is so damn special about you to make you feel so specially inferior to any other jerk?
~ Perry Brass
But everything had changed, and I was becoming more and more of who I really was, and less of this person I had thought I wanted to be.
~ Perry Moore
Running always gave me time to think. It wasn't like practicing with a team, when I always worries if I was fitting in with everyone else. When I ran, I never thought about screwing someone else up or ruining the teams chance tow in. It was a solitary activity, and sometimes that felt nice.
~ Perry Moore
Running always gave me time to think. It wasn't like practicing with a team, when I always worried if I was fitting in with everyone else. When I ran, I never thought about screwing someone else up or ruining the team's chance to win. It was a solitary activity, and sometimes that felt nice.
~ Perry Moore
It is both possible and necessary that we work with wolves without joining the pack.
~ Unknown
I will live my life from now on, I will not perform it.
~ Pete Hamill