Quotes About Uniqueness

I did nothing to attract attention. My somewhat fantastic tastes, my paleness and thinness, my peculiar way of dressing, my scorn of fashion, my general freedom in all respects, made me a being quite apart from all others. I did not recognise the fact. I did not read, I never read, the newspapers. So I did not know what was said about me, either favourable or unfavourable. Surrounded by a court of adorers of both sexes, I lived in a sunny dream.

I would like whispering with someone who is like me. But no one is. I think it is because my sizzle doesn't match anyone else's. I want something to happen so bad that it sizzles inside of me. It never stops, but it also never fits any of the choices presented.

Siamese twins are interesting because they are the only people who can write a biography and an autobiography at the same time.

We can't search or attain well being, wealth, studying, justice or kindness usually. Action is all the time particular, concrete, individualized, distinctive.

Innovation without imitation is a complete waste of time.

You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe out what came before.

At the time, we thought it was a nice way to say something unique about the group to make us different from all the other bands kicking around in London.

I have a job that allows me not to look perfect all the time. I can just go looking the way I look, have my hair just any old type of way.

I think that we are supernatural. We are unique. We're the only animals in the universe that we know of that actually have self-consciousness, a sense of time and our own mortality.

I have learned through time that not everyone is interested in the kinds of things that fascinate me.

Be yourself. Authenticity trumps cool every time.

There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer.

God did not have time to make a nobody, so you're a somebody.

Cuba may be the only place in the world where you can be yourself and more than yourself at the same time.

Non-conformism is the major, perhaps the only, sin of our time.

At a time when individualism is becoming an endangered species, jazz represents a celebration of the individual.

I never do pictures that I've done before - but I really try not to. Whenever I get an assignment I try to think how to shoot this person for this story in this magazine at this point in time.

I was very aware when I went to the Academy Awards that it would probably be my first and last time. So I thought my input should really be about fertility, and I thought I'd bring some eggs.

Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.

The Earth is big. There are huge natural forces that have worked over geological time. But it turns out, when you look carefully at the geological time, you can't find anything like us.

No two men living at the same time live in the same time.

I often make the analogy with tennis. Every match the rules are the same, but no game is ever the same. Theatre is like that. Every time is different.

You and I, travel to the beat of a different drum, can't you tell by the way I run, every time you make eyes at me.

For a long time I wanted to be special and to stick out amongst the crowd. Something I yearn for now is to be one of many.