Quotes About Individuality

I can't knock gay rap, or retarded rap - whatever. Do what you do; I don't really listen to it. I don't really pay that no attention. Like I said, it's not my cup of tea - to each his own. At the end of the day, we all people.

I understand that Adrenaline Mob is not going to be every Dream Theater fan's cup of tea. I totally get that; I understand that. It's different world.

I have always felt that promoting somebody else's mistake as a superlative product is not my cup of tea.

I don't want to dumb anything down, and I think people appreciate that. Even if it's not their cup of tea.

I don't go and sit in parlor for two to three hours - that's not my cup of tea, but I make sure I am nice and well dressed.

I would have hated living in 1813. It wouldn't have been my cup of tea at all.

Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!

I'd like to be the role model to teach other people who have Down's syndrome to be actors and actresses and to be themselves and not try to be a big shot.

You cannot teach a person how to write songs. It's about being your own person and following your instincts.

Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.

Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.

They change. They're different. There are no two alike, that's the miracle of it. But if they have something to teach the students. You can see them writing during the show.

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.

Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can't learn what's right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you.

Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero.

My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, but I always thought about things a little bit differently.

Read something of interest every day - something of interest to you, not to your teacher or your best friend or your minister/rabbi/priest. Comics count. So does poetry. So do editorials in your school newspaper. Or a biography of a rock star. Or an instructional manual. Or the Bible.

My high-school a cappella teacher would embarrass me in front of the choir. 'Mavis, you're in the basement. Mavis, you're singing with the boys.' I said, 'Mr. Finch, my voice isn't soprano. I can't sing up there with the girls.' So I just got out of the choir.

A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.

Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say, what society says, but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that.

At school, I was bored with the teachers, and there were moments where I felt they were singling me out.

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.

Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state.

I was always being told off at school. The teachers would say: 'Everyone's talking, but you're the one I can hear.'