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Quotes About Uniqueness

Don't you feel cut off?" I asked. "Cut off from what?" she replied. "No, on the whole I'd say we rather enjoy our separateness.
~ John Berendt
Having seen this reproduction, one can go to the National Gallery to look at the original and discover what the reproduction lacks. Alternatively one can forget about the quality of the reproduction and simply be reminded, when one sees the original, that it is a famous painting of which somewhere one has already seen a reproduction. But in either case the uniqueness of the original now lies in it being the original of a reproduction.
~ John Berger
Accept the unknown. There are no secondary characters. Each one is silhouetted against the sky. All have the same stature. Within a given story some simply occupy more space.
~ John Berger
But in either case the uniqueness of the original now lies in it being the original of a reproduction. It is no longer what the image shows that strikes one as unique; its first meaning is no longer to be found in what it says, but what it is.
~ John Berger
J)ust because your version of normal isn't the same as someone else's version doesn't mean that there's anything wrong with you.
~ John Boyne
we may just have to come around to the notion that there's my universe and there's your universe—but there's no such thing as the universe.
~ John Brockman
A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different.
~ John Buchan
That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.
~ John Burroughs
Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.
~ John Burroughs
The one quality that seemingly guaranteed the success of these and so many other numbers is Pan's ability to remain open to a variety of sources and styles. Though it is difficult for any artist to avoid being redundant, Pan, nevertheless, strove to make each dance a complete and unique experience.
~ John C. Tibbetts
they come different and the same with each it is different and the same with each the absence of love is different with each the absence of love is the same
~ John Cage
College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.
~ John Cage
No book is really a fixed object. Every reader reads a book differently, and each book works in a different way on each reader.
~ John Connolly
He didn't trust people, especially children, who displayed signs of individuality.
~ John Connolly
Each of us is a complicated assymetrical outcome of the laws of electromagnetism and gravity.
~ John D. Barrow
We all need something that's ours. A thing that we know absolutely about ourselves that others can only guess at.
~ John David Anderson
You all laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.
~ John Davis
She is all states, and all princes, I. Nothing else is.
~ John Donne
You make allowances for your family. They may not seem normal to the world but they're normal to you because you've been dealing with them all your life.
~ John Dufresne
I've always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin' my thing, my own way. And it's been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.
~ Dolly Parton
What's the use in being different when it's being different that's the same.
~ John Hartford
In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others. . . .
~ John Stuart Mill
Nothing that ever happens in life can take away the fact that I am me. So I have to go on being me.
~ Monica Dickens
We cannot all see the dreams in the same way.
~ Paulo Coelho