Quotes About Uniqueness

I don't understand you. I can't treat myself like a hurdy-gurdy from which I can take out an unpopular piece and put in a tune that everybody is whistling.

I don't need to hang out in a posse and try to act cool.

You know what would be cool, next time?" said a voice behind me. "Black roses.

For a short time, we'd become each other, a little. Maybe that's what people do when they fall in love, mind, body, and soul. Or maybe we were just weird.

For a short time, we'd become each other, a little. Maybe that's what people do when they fall in love, mind, body, and soul. Or maybe we were just weird.

You do not merely want to be considered the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones that do what you do.

Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has almost the same opinions. I adore the art world, but this is copycat behavior in a sphere that prides itself on independent thinking.

When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light.

Why fit in when you're born to stand out?

Every name is real. That's the nature of names.

All cats are the same in the dark, says the proverb. But it certainly did not apply to people, with them it was just the opposite. During the day they were all alike, running in their well-defined ways. At night they changed beyond recognition.

Conformity is the ruin of the mind.

Skipping: the ultimate display of nonconformity.

You have to be the best of whatever you are, but successful, cool actresses come in all shapes and sizes.

I put my pants on one leg at a time, just like everyone else. It's the way I take them OFF that makes me better than you.

You're the only one who has the power to be the best you, I thought. Nobody else can do that for you.

We are all the same in that we all want to be different.

Desde el nacimiento hasta la muerte, de lunes a lunes, de la mañana a la noche: todas las actividades están rutinizadas y prefabricadas. ¿Cómo puede un hombre preso en esa red de actividades rutinarias recordar que es un hombre, un individuo único, al que sólo le ha sido otorgada una única oportunidad de vivir, con esperanzas y desilusiones, con dolor y temor, con el anhelo de amar y el miedo a la nada y a la separatidad?

From birth to death, from Monday to Monday, from morning to evening—all activities are routinized, and prefabricated. How should a man caught in this net of routine not forget that he is a man, a unique individual, one who is given only this one chance of living, with hopes and disappointments, with sorrow and fear, with the longing for love and the dread of the nothing and of separateness?

I have never liked Americans, except odd ones. In the mass I have always thought them dreadful!

Je m'appelle Erik Satie comme tout le monde.

Just me, rocking the awk.

Within reasonable limits, we gals all look alike nowadays, except for details.

These are, in sum, the two great uniquenesses of human life—regularized food-sharing and cooperation with others—and they are unknown among the subhuman primates.