Quotes About Uniqueness

All people - African, European, American - worry about being different. But I've learned that the traits we'd rush to get rid of are the very ones that others desire. People always covet what they don't have. That's why we should look at ourselves every now and then and say, 'I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.'

I don't need to worry about identity theft because no one wants to be me.

We do things differently. You don't have to worry about being part of a particular genre. You just go for it.

I'm an identical twin, and I felt that with my twin brother, we sort of formed this unassailable force, and it gave me the confidence to be different. Even if I was a goofball, my twin brother was a goofball with me, so I didn't have to worry about fitting in as much. I was able to march to my own drummer.

Everyone has to find his own path and don't worry about following trends.

Maryland's different than Virginia. Maryland has certain advantages that Virginia doesn't have and certain disadvantages... We should just worry about ourselves and not worry about comparisons.

If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don't let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising.

I don't worry about whether things match. If I love two pieces, I kind of assume they go together.

You don't worry about being liked. You have to be yourself.

You'd never play Hamlet if you started worrying about who's played it before you.

I was born with my moustache and, no, I've never been tempted to shave it off. I don't spend a lot of time worrying about my face and, like Gilbert and Sullivan's Katisha, my best feature is my left shoulder-blade.

There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.

We need to start from a presupposition: namely, that there is no 'better' football and no 'worse' kind of football, just different styles and cultures that belong to each country.

What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.

It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us.

My goal is to not fit in. My worst nightmare is being the baby version of another artist.

I think the worst thing you can do is blend in. Why would you ever want to blend in?

I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.

I think that comparison is the worst thing that anyone could put themselves through.

The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.

Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature.

No matter what, I can't sound like John Lennon. But I can do Tom Jones.

I'm not trying to be Tom Brady. I'm just trying to be Matt Cassel.

No Doubt is a very specific thing that's comprised of Tom and Adrian and myself and Gwen, and it will always be that way.