Quotes About Individuality

Most of life is a matter of nonessential differences.

if you were to lead successfully, whether a kingdom or a ship's company, the only standards worth bothering with were those you set yourself; those of others were—well, those of the mob; those who were led, who had neither the ability nor the courage to sit alone and make the decisions.

Even though I seem not human, a mute shelf of glucose, bottled blood, machinery to swell the lung and pump the heart—even so, do not put out my life. Let me still glow.

just because I was born in a stable does not make me a horse

Everybody's the next somebody. I was the next Hank Aaron. You see what happened.

I've just always worn wristbands. I'm not trying to be a player. It's just part of my uniform. Hell, I just got to be me and hope I don't hurt anybody in the meantime.

The thing with food is that you can give 20 people the same recipe and the same ingredients, and somebody's going to make it better than somebody else, and that's the creativity of it. It's like music. You could have a bunch of people playing the same piece, and somebody's gonna play it better.

One thing you can say about cats. They don't have to worry about kissing each other's asses. They can do that for themselves.

Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.

To be a writer, a creative person, you must retain your ability to react uniquely. Your feelings must remain your own. The day you mute yourself, or moderate yourself, or repress your proneness to get excited or ecstatic or angry or emotionally involved...that day, you die as a writer.

I am not my body. My body is nothing without me.

Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.

I've pretty much always had the same haircut my entire life.

You know what? You're an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it's gonna keep making people nervous for the rest of your life.

Just because I'm presented life in a certain way doesn't mean I do all these things. It's just something I choose to express.

Let me remember that each life must follow its own course, and that what happens to other people has absolutely nothing to do with what happens to me.

Never let anyone tell you how to live your life.

Fashion is a tool... to compete in life outside the home

None of us is born thinking we are ordinary. Feeling special is an essential part of the human birthright. If you don't think you are special, you won't seek to contribute your gift to the world.

I want to live life on my own terms.

And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go.

If you choose to lead your life just like everyone else, then what exactly is it that you have to offer?

Live your life, experience something, and then you're going to have a lot of things to say. But if you hang around in Hollywood, then you're going to say the same thing as everyone else - nothing.

We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives.