Quotes About Individuality

People are starting to go on about my weight but I'm not going to change my size because they don't like the way I look.

I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.

Even if I did have, you know, a 'Sports Illustrated' body, I'd still wear elegant clothes.

To help everyone better understand the difference between giving equally with measured amounts, and giving uniquely, in terms of each child's legitimate needs, I handed out the following illustrations:

The only thing that is necessary is that we take another look at the less favored child, seek out her specialness, then reflect the wonder of it back to her.

I have the feeling Heather is going to be "expressing herself" a lot more in the future, and I'm sure I won't like everything I hear; but in the long run, I still think it's more important for her to be real than to have to continue being "mother's joy.

To be loved uniquely—for one's own special self—is to be loved as much as we need to be loved.

I'm a big personality. I walk into a room, big and tall and loud.

I've seen people where it rules their lives, you know, who want to be thinner or have bigger boobs, and how it wears them down, and I just don't want that in my life.

hold opinions because I believe them, not to be cool, controversial or compliant.

shrug. I don't feel that. I'd settle for being ignored, left alone, unjudged. Unharried. I just want to live my life. I don't need anyone to understand it. 'Do you think? It strikes me as the ultimate in self-absorption, hoping for understanding from others to give meaning to your life. Get over yourself, I say.

Don't change yourself to be liked by others.

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

A majority can never replace the man…. Just as a hundred fools do not make one wise man, an heroic decision is not likely to come from a hundred cowards.

The Strong Man is Mightiest Alone.

don't let what other people think, stop you from doing the things you love

Does anybody honestly believe that human progress originates in the composite brain of the majority and not in the brain of the individual personality? Or may it be presumed that for the future human civilization will be able to dispense with this as a condition of its existence? But may it not be that, to-day, more than ever before, the creative brain of the individual is indispensable?

In this world is not the creative act of the genius always a protest against the inertia of the mass?

No es cierto que la idea de responsabilidad presupone la idea de la personalidad?

Bir husus vard?r ki, bunu hat?rdan ç?karmamak ve göz önünde tutmak gerekir. ÇoÄŸunluk hiçbir zaman bir kiÅŸinin yerine geçerli olamaz. ÇoÄŸunluk, ahmaklar? olduÄŸu kadar alçaklar? da temsil eder. Saman dolu yüz kafa nas?l ki, hiçbir zaman bir ak?ll? kiÅŸiye eÅŸit olamazsa, yüz korkak adamdan da hiçbir vakit kahramanca bir karar beklenemez.

Does anybody honestly believe that human progress originates in the composite brain of the majority and not in the brain of the individual personality?

Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.