Quotes About Uniqueness

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

We all have different musical instincts, and I think they're precious and should be respected.

All of us, at some moment, have had a vision of our existence as something unique, untransferable and very precious. This revelation almost always takes place during adolescence.

I prefer writing originals.

I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.

It's true what they say, and I am now a firm believer in the fact that every pregnancy is different for every woman!

I don't prepare myself for any character unless it is really different.

Everyone has their own way of preparing.

I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd.

I don't think you can find someone who has my combination of look, talking ability, presence. I don't think you can find an exact copy to fill my shoes.

You have been called to be who you are - the whole luminous light. No one can dim your light when you are fully present to the depth and breadth of it.

I always want to approach records from where it feels very graspable. You know what the song's about, but it's presented to you in a way that's like, 'I never heard something like this before,' but it doesn't push you away.

I feel like the biggest key to longevity is maintaining what's special about yourself but always presenting it in a new way. That way, people can never get tired of you.

One of the important things to look at is kids who aren't cheerleaders or aren't the student-body presidents. In 'Daddy Day Care,' one of the kids would only communicate in Klingon. I get that kind of a kid.

All of the American presidents, certainly all of the notable ones, have been pretty original.

I've never been pressed to be friends with everyone or be popular, even in school - I've always done my own thing.

You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book.

What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

Everyone has his own sound. I'm not going to presume how to tell anybody how to write.

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.

I don't pretend to be anybody else but me.

You have to be yourself. You can't pretend to be somebody else.

In many ways, we might compare to The Pretenders more than others, but still, we created our own category.

There's something very noble about the bowling shoe. It has very little pretense, and it's kind of naughty. You have to share them with a bunch of other people, which is so kinky in a way that I like. What other shoes would you actively share with other people?