Quotes About Individuality

I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable.

It doesn't bother me when someone calls me a 'dumb blonde.' I'm neither dumb or blonde.

Be the alligator girl. Be whatever your dreams and your luck will let you be. Wear your green cornflakes with pride. Snarl at the crowds, and do your best to make them flinch. Give them a quarter's worth of wonder.

If you try to follow everyone else and be like everyone else, before you know it you're gone. You're not going to find yourself again; you'll just be a version of what you might have hoped to have been.

She cared so much about her words, her creative expression, when what mattered to everyone else was the bottom line.

When a girl didn't have anyone to stand up for her, that girl had to stand up for her own damn self. She didn't expect that hunky Ruthanna groupie to understand. "Your shoes look like they could kill a person, Ruthanna," AnnieLee said, giggling. Ruthanna kicked out a leg to show off a pointy-toed stiletto. "They're killing me," she said. Then she brushed a red-gold curl away from her cheek and said, "I like you.

I wrote a lot of songs that people wouldn't play on the radio, but I didn't care. It bothered me at the time, but I never thought, "I shouldn't have done that." Whatever I write is just what comes out of me, and I refuse to be judged.

Although I look like a drag queen's Christmas tree on the outside, I am at heart a simple country woman.

People became so involved in their personalities, and their day-to-day living and goings-in and goings-out, that they began to pull away from the collective. Pull away from the source. Pull away from that which is. To become separate from All That Is, and to become individualized. And so as an individual person or being, they chose separation from source. And with the separation from source, then they began to forget to use the thought. And so then they began to find other ways.

This life may be compared to playing one instrument in a large orchestra. Naturally you cannot play all the instruments at the same time. You can only focus on your part of the beautiful symphony, although the entire orchestra and all the music comprises the totality of who you really are.

People became so involved in their personalities, and their day-to-day living and goings-in and goings-out, that they began to pull away from the collective. Pull away from the source. Pull away from that which is. To become separate from All That Is, and to become individualized. And so as an individual person or being, they chose separation from source. And with the separation from source, then they began to forget to use the thought.

I think a lot of young kids at school are very conscious of trying to keep credibility in case they kind of stand out in a crowd and get bullied by trying to stay cool and stuff. And my whole thing, all the way through school, was I was just a goof... I didn't care.

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You were born wrong, darling

Stroller was eccentric, no doubt, but I'm one of those people for whom eccentric were made. I'm an appreciator of the offbeat

Go your way, seducers, flatterers, idlers, those glib of tongue and charlatans; I am not a seed that you can force to grow; my goal differs so from yours that I would be wasting my time in trying to explain where my inclination drives me.

This little pile of shit, heaped here before my door, is mine, and I challenge any to malign its form. This little heap is my thing, my badge, a tangible sign of that which distinguishes me from, or likens me to, my neighbor. It is also what distinguishes him from me. His heap will never be mine. Whether he be friend or foe, this alone will allow me to recognize if we are alike: neat, clean, negligent, disgusting, or obviously rotten.

I think it's intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.

Being in a band with three guitar players, one thing you need to do is learn to make each guitar voice sound separate and identifiable.

And every day, I thank you, too... The reason? Just because you're you!

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be—because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose and then where are you? —Fanny Brice (1891–1951), singer and comedian

four key principles: (1) taking the initiative to reach out to others; (2) showing genuine interest in people; (3) treating others with respect and kindness; and (4) valuing others and yourself as unique individuals who have much to share and offer one another.