Quotes About Uniqueness

A lot of talented people have some quirks, y'know? And bless them for that. I'd rather have Tourette's than be someone boring.

The entertainment industry is loaded with extraordinarily talented people. But the true, genuine originals, they're rare.

Everyone has different talents, different styles and talents.

People have talents that are different. Where does the creative flow come from - inside us or from a higher power? I don't ask any questions. I just write it down.

Different rappers got different talents. It's like X-Men.

What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.

When I was a journalist, I didn't care how many people talked to Ice Cube before I talked Ice Cube. I just knew that when I talked to Ice Cube, it was going to be different than what anybody else had done, and it was the same with any group.

I remember, as a young architect, people always talked about I. M. Pei's concrete. He had a particular specification no one else knew.

When I was 16, nobody else talked like me. Nobody else sounded like me.

I've shown, for twenty-plus years, with a legacy that will be talked about way after I'm gone, that I am different.

One thing we've always wanted to do is just do things our way, and we've always talked about having our own festival.

We are all built differently. Some guys are more powerful. Some guys are very tall. I'm not very tall, so I rely on quickness.

Being a very tall person, I have always felt a kinship with giraffes.

From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family.

People ask me what it's like to be tall, and I don't know what to say because I don't know any different. I grew up in a very tall house, so I wasn't an anomaly there.

I just plan on enjoying being tall.

Some lady asked me once, 'Is it hotter because you're closer to the sun?' She was dead serious. People are strange. But I love being tall and I wouldn't trade it for anything.

At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults but shy and awkward with other kids. I was quiet, bookish, and in spite of my size, hopeless at sports. In short, I was different. And even in the earliest grades, I got pounded for it.

I don't want to be taller; I want to be myself.

My entire high school career - my entire school career - I've been like three feet taller than everyone in my grade.

I've always been the tallest; I didn't shoot up. That's who I am.

I used to have a very difficult childhood because I was always the tallest girl in school, and everybody was staring at me and saying, 'You are very different.' Now, different is good.

I'm nothing if not a tangled, colorful ball of contradictions.

There are those usual people who try desperately to appear unusual and there are unusual people who try to appear usual.