Quotes About Uniqueness

All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another. Its fascination depends on how much is revealed, and in what manner.

Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.

My parents mistook me for a sack of potatoes so I sat in the corner of the kitchen for the first 13 years of my life. My birth name is Thom Potatoes.

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.

There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only one you.

Otherness is a big thing for me. I'm always drawn to characters that live lives that I couldn't lead.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.

As the saying goes, it takes all kinds to make the world go around, though perhaps some shouldn't go quite so far around it as others.

I've been myself my whole life.

There is no normality in life.

Live your life; whatever that life may be.

If you are normal, I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life.

If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.

It's not longer 'Look what I can do, I can do it better then you.' It's just I am.

We want to encourage people. You are not just another kid in the youth group or the lady on the third row. God has a purpose for every life.

Jackie Chan is a very good comedy/martial arts star. He does one kind of martial arts that Jet Li doesn't know how to do and Jet Li does a martial art that Jackie Chan doesn't know how to do. You can both go to two Chinese restaurants, but both can have different kinds of food.

An artist's most valuable asset is individuality.

Looking around at the diversity within our human race, it is obvious that 0.01% accounts for a significant difference in how we look, think, and behave.

It needs time, perspective, to show you that someone might be original.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.

I think if you study--if you learn too much of what others have done, you may tend to take the same direction as everybody else.

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent.

Mutants, super beings, gods, aliens, a guy who sticks to walls at one extreme, a creature who eats planets at the other; Each one that comes into being, they feel, diminishes the rest of humanity, ordinary homo sapiens, that little bit more.