Quotes About Uniqueness

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

Individuality is very important for a full human life.

The burden of living one's own life is experiencing sensations that no one else can share.

Develop your eccentricities early, and no one will think you're going senile later in life

My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?

I just want to keep finding special characters that I feel like I can bring to life and characters that are real and not superficial.

Feel that life likes you just the way you are; otherwise, it would have made you differently.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

What makes your life different from the next n***a? There is something special about you, so let me help you bring out your individuality.

I just want people to admit that there's no one way to live your life.

The answer is that we don't choose our freaks, they choose us.

I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really?

To be a standard shape is not all in life. To know is also important.

I say, don't read the classics - try to discover your own classics; every life has its own.

I have never been convinced throughout my life that one needs to be imitating others. I even tell my daughters not to look at me as a model.

All my life I've tried to hide my height. I was taller than everybody else and stood out, so I would slouch and try to hide it.

If this is the only planet on which not only life, but intelligent life, has arisen, that would be very unusual.

Having genius means to digest influences while losing all footprint and trace of them.

Be normal, now. Right now. Because you are. Because you can be.

He seemed, well, like he was mine. Like he was my particular person.

Be normal, right now. Because you are, because you can be.

You don't try to be anyone else and that is a very hard thing in this world. It may seem unimportant right now when fitting in would be so much easier. But later you'll see. Being who you are is everything.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance