Quotes About Uniqueness

I'd take bits and pieces from a fighter, if I liked what they did, and I'd put it in my arsenal. I never wanted to fight like or be like any other fighter. I wanted a style that was unique for me.

I don't want to be a cookie-cutter-poster-boy-bubble-gum-chewing fighter.

I don't want to look like all the other fighters. I've been proud to not be or act or look like any other fighters.

We're fighting to be ourselves in a world that's trying to make us like everyone else.

I think every fight is different based on who is fighting.

I've never been interested in dressing one woman. What's interested me was to have a philosophy. It hasn't been important to put a woman in a blue dress. I wanted to dress women who wanted to look at themselves. To stand out. To be women who were not part of the crowd. A woman who fights and advances.

I knew that I had to find my own voice, both figuratively and literally.

I have a figure, and there aren't many girls out there right now who have that.

You can't live in someone else's shoes; you've got to branch out and fill your own shoes.

I would never try to fill John Lewis's shoes. I can only be myself - my authentic self.

This world is filled with five billion people with five billion different ways of looking at things.

It's cruel to compare two actors working with two different filmmakers on two different characters.

The artist is a combination of what's happened to them in their lives and how it's filtered through the way they think. That's what makes me different than Samantha Brown or Anthony Bourdain.

Being at school, being who I am, being an athlete, it was hard to find people like me. There's not many athletes that can be at my level. That was kind of hard finding people who love something so much they want to keep on doing it.

People say I am a little bit weird with the way I go about things, it's a fine line.

And hip-hop is about style and finesse and being creative and different, and to do that you have to be ballsy enough to not do what everybody else does.

A lot of artists are aspiring to fill an archetype as opposed to being themselves. Even if they can't quite put their finger on it, fans can tell.

It's always hard to put your finger on what it is that makes Primus Primus.

It is a mistake to assume that everyone listens like you do: your listening is as unique as your fingerprints, and so is everyone else's.

I'm so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.

I was born with six fingers on each hand.

There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips.

Even my closest friend said I was finished, but I think I may be a little different from the others.

The only name on my birth certificate was Henley, no first name.