Quotes About Individuality

People are full of great advice... Professors, parents, friends mean well... But in the end, the person driving this thing called life is you. Listen to you. Spend time being alone. Learn your worth. Dream. And never forget where you came from.

I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.

I keep a pretty low profile. I live in Culver City with some roommates. I don't do the whole 'Hollywood' thing.

I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.

If people enjoy my profile from the privacy of their own home, that's entirely up to you.

I have a Twitter profile, but I avoid red carpets and all that kind of stuff. I'd rather no one talk about me ever, and I just get to do my thing. I'm an introvert.

For me, being independent is about being able to express myself exactly how I want to, instead of maximising profits.

Not to invent yourself is to be false. To follow preordained rules is a profound betrayal of what it means to be human.

The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.

My life's not about being gay - although one could argue I'm pretty professionally gay - but that's not how I experience life. Being gay is a profound part of who I am, but it isn't all of who I am.

Hilary Putnam died of cancer at the age of 89. Those of us who had the good fortune to know Putnam as mentees, colleagues, and friends remember his life with profound gratitude and love, since Hilary was not only a great philosopher, but also a human being of extraordinary generosity, who really wanted people to be themselves, not his acolytes.

I love black. Anything black transforms lives in a profound way, particularly for women.

My eyebrows make a more profound impact on other people than they do on me. I just let 'em grow.

I love the novel of 'The English Patient'; I think it's a profoundly beautiful novel. I love the movie of 'The English Patient'; I think it's a profoundly beautiful movie. And they're totally different. You accept each on its own terms, and that's kind of the ideal.

As an artist, program directors always want to put you in a little box.

I've been coaching the sport for a number of years. And I went through many athletes. Some athletes stay with your program for a long, long period of time. Some athletes, they have a different approach as far as coaching style or your philosophies. I totally respect their own opinions - they have the right to choose their own coach.

Too often, we are being programmed by the environment around us to behave differently. But I think a true leader is an authentic person who feels good about who he is.

The way we have been programmed and conditioned to think about the black kid being an athlete, it's like every young black boy people would see say 'what sport do you play?' instead of just asking 'what do you do?' 'What are you interested in?'

Everyone is born with it but, unfortunately, our society and culture are programmed to kill creativity.

When you take the individual out of the equation, then you're making programming based on some marketer's idea of what will sell, and not based on the idea of what an individual would like.

I don't object to AA at all - only the programs that insist that it's the only way to get clean and to stay clean.

I write my programs primarily for myself.

I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just who I am.

A truly common culture is not one in which we all think alike, or in which we all believe that fairness is next to godliness, but one in which everyone is allowed to be in on the project of cooperatively shaping a common way of life.