Quotes About Individuality

I, too, have ropes around my neck, I have them to this day, pulling me this way and that, East and West, the nooses tightening, commanding, choose, choose. . . . Ropes, I do not choose between you. Lassoes, lariats, I choose neither of you, and both. Do you hear? I refuse to choose.

Everyone had learned that it was worth giving up privacy for the merest possibility of fame, and the idea that only a private self was truly autonomous and free had be lost in the static of the airwaves.

Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. - Notebook, 1894

Becoming a part of a movement doesn't help anybody think clearly.

We're not really free unless we can put matters in our own words. And if we can't put them in our own words, we can't talk to other people, because if we speak the words of the internet or the TV news, other people will recognize that, and they are not really in our company, but somewhere else.

I'm a very feminine man. I like feminine things. I don't go to strip clubs. I don't drink beer. I don't play sports.

No hot guys should be allowed to have an English accent and drive a motorcycle. Not to mention wear the leather jacket or sport the cool shades. Hot guys should be forced into footie pajamas.

They should have focused more on me.

I don't even have moderately big breasticles. They just look like - well, nevermind what they look like. At least they stay strapped down when I worm into a sports bra.

I have nothing to prove to anyone. I only play for myself.

When everyone believes they are the life coaches, who are the players?

We're in different categories. She [Venus Williams] does sports, I do more of the fashion side.

I have never really lived with anyone in my adult years. I just read my sports ticker. And 50 Shades of Grey.

People here don't identify themselves by their sports team.

You must allow your players to become the athletes they can be. Don't make them into anything just to become the kind of winners fans, friends and others think they must be.

There is no doubt about how hard it is to stay on top in any sport, but to do it in an individual sport for the majority of your career, it is not easy.

I played team sports, but I never felt like I fitted in that well, so this allowed me to be part of a community but to do it in my own way.

I realize im black, but id like to be viewed as a person, and that is everybodys wish.

Who you are as a person far outweighs what you do in an athletic arena.

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

Your uniqueness is your strength. Remember that. Don't mold yourself to others or to what others think. You're an individual. You're special.

Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.

It takes strength to be proud of yourself and to accept yourself when you know that you have something out of the ordinary about you.

To be a genuine individualist requires a great deal of strength and courage. It is never easy to chart new territory, to cross new frontiers, or to introduce subtle shadings to an established color.