Quotes About Individuality

But what would it have cost you to make people happy and agree that you'd had an affair?" She replied very gravely, "I have lived my own unique life, and my life lacks nothing; it has no need to borrow from other people

Cats are not adoring like dogs. They don't care. They can never be relied upon to shore up a human ego. They go their way, do their thing, are not subservient and will never apologise. No one has ever come across a cat apologising and if a cat did, it would patently be obvious it was not being sincere.

So shiny was bad and 'too sad' was bad, and 'too joyous' was bad, which meant you had to go around not being anything; also nit thinking, least not at the top level, which was why everybody kept their private thoughts safe and sound in those recesses underneath.

What if one person happened to be sane, longest friend, against a whole background, a race mind, that wasn't sane, that person would probably be viewed by the mass consciousness as mad - but would that person be mad?

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This gander likes to do his own chasing, Madam Goose.

I don't let it bother me too much if someone doesn't like me. I just figure there's no accounting for taste. It's not me, it's my acting. It's like if someone doesn't like someone's food, they just don't like my acting.

I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home - if you were a woman, you were writing about being a woman - and I decided not to do that, write about what you know. That's not what I do. I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.

Each person has a literature inside them.

Witches, warlocks, gremlins, orgres - they're just words,labels. Haven't you noticed that when people are labelled, their faces disappear?

My different personalities leave me in peace now.

Per zio Erwin c'era un sorta di curriculum dell'esistenza in cui le cose da fare erano state stabilite dagli altri. Le soddisfazioni e i piaceri della vita non consistevano tanto nel farle, quanto nello spuntarle dalla lista.

But I must say it has been, in general, a boon not to have been a beautiful woman. Because I was barely looked at, I was free to do the looking.

Il (...) lui a rétorqué que c'était sa vie. C'est vrai. C'est sa vie. Mais c'est nous qui sommes tristes. (L'échappée belle, p.51)

Es dauerte einen Moment, bis er ihr antwortete: Nein, ich spreche von... von eurer Freiheit, glaube ich. Von dem Glück, das ihr habt, für euch zu leben und auf alles andere zu pfeifen.

On se saluait chaque matin et l'on se droguait gentiment en rentrant le soir. Shit, herbe, pinard, incunables, Marie-Antoinette ou Heineken, c'était chacun son trip et Marvin pour tous.

After all, nobody else ever made a sketch of the dishes in your sink. That you probably can't think of a similar image is also helpful.

In addition, you can be sure your drawing of your surroundings will have a modest degree of originality. After all, nobody else ever made a sketch of the dishes in your sink. That you probably can't think of a similar image is also helpful.

I am not the property of the people who bred me. I am not the prisoner of the people with fancy psychiatric lingo in their heads and no love for me in their hearts.

He sees her looking at him with interest, and is encouraged to go on. 'I wouldn't be here with you now. This wouldn't be real - something else would. You'd have been another you, instead of the one you are now. You can't be tied down to a predestined fate when you change according to your situation, and your fate must change too. Everything depends on circumstances - on which "you" you happen to be at a given time...

People like to make fun of the fans who camp out but people have renaissance fairs people do Civil War re-enactments people do what they like. I'm tired of hearing people rage on the fans. If you don't like 'Twilight ' don't buy a ticket.

Jeder Mensch bekommt eine bestimmte Zeit im Kontinuum der Menschheitsgeschichte und jeder bekommt seine Herkunft und bestimmte Eigenschaften vererbt, die alles bestimmen, jedenfalls fast alles, was er sein wird. Mit dem Rest freien Willens kann er sich ein Leben lang herumraufen und versuchen, ihm seinen unverwechselbaren Stempel aufzudrücken und sich von der Hypothek seiner beschädigten Eltern zu befreien.

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough ' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'