Quotes About Individuality

Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.

It is ridiculous to lay down to people where a thing should stand, design everything for them from the lavatory pan to the ashtray. On the contrary, I like people to move their furniture so that it suits them (not me!), and it's quite natural (and I approve) when they bring the old pictures and mementos they have come to love into a new interior, irrespective of whether they are good taste or bad.

Jde o to být oble?en tak, abychom byli co nejmén? nápadní. ?ervený frak je v tane?ním sále nápadný. Tedy je ?ervený frak v tane?ním sále nemoderní. Cylindr na led? je nápadný. Proto je na led? nemoderní. Všecko, co je nápadné, platí v dobré spole?nosti za hrubé a nep?ípustné.

Hejsek je ?lov?k, jemuž slouží oblek jen k tomu, aby se od svého okolí co nejvíce lišil

A kdo si zakládá domov, a? si za?izuje vše sám.

Human progress and human cultures are not founded by the multitude, they are the works of personal genius and personal efficiency

I go by Kit now… and, just so you know, Katie wants to be called Kat." Jesus Christ. Give me a break…

If you have talented and motivated people, they should be encouraged to work alone when creativity or efficiency is the highest priority.

I think anybody who's famous has to deal with their fame in their own way, and I dealt with it by making a film about a kid who's looking out into the world of celebrity obsession.

You might be looking forward to working, falling in love, marrying, raising a family. You are told that you should expect to find a job paying so much, where your hours are so much, where your responsibilities are so much. That is what is expected of you. And if you live up to it, it will be an awful waste. If you expect that, you will be limiting yourself.

When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick - she never has to wait for someone to choose her.

All the things I thought I was - simple and plain and sometime funny - are very small words. They do not begin to describe me. They do not begin to express what is inside of me. I have value, and I have worth. I cannot be replaced like old shoes or taken for granted like tap water.

its not so much about the shoes, but the person wearing them

Does your life feel authentically your own?

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson

I am the androgyne.

But can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a room as yourself, not as some child's mother or some man's wife?…we have no familiar, ready-made name for a woman who defines herself, by choice, neither in relation to children nor to men, who is self-identified, who has chosen herself.

To do something very common, in my own way.

I've had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch

in every room, the furniture reflects you larger than life, or dwindling

I have a notion that genius knows itself; that Dickinson chose her seclusion, knowing she was exceptional and knowing what she needed.

Some ideas are not really new but keep having to be affirmed from the ground up, over and over. One of these is the apparently simple idea that women are as intrinsically human as men, that neither women nor men are merely the enlargement of a contact sheet of genetic encoding, biological givens. Experience shapes us, randomness shapes us, the stars and weather, our own accommodations and rebellions, above all, the social order around us.

Do not follow anyone else's opinion of your capabilities; find for yourself what you're passionate about and chase it!

I've never tried to be anything but me. Even with Slipknot, where it can almost feel like a roll sometimes, it's still a part of who I am. It's a very strong and passionate part of who I am, and I'm lucky enough to have an audience that is really open to what I do.