Quotes About Uniqueness

It took me years to realize that 'normal' is actually super boring and that being myself was harder but infinitely more rewarding.

All the quirks you've spent years trying to hide, they are actually your superpowers; they're what set you apart. They don't make you better. They don't make you worse. They make you you, and only you can be that.

The thing that you think is imperfect about you is the thing that makes you who you are. It separates you from everybody else. I have a scar on my lip, and for years I hated it. But now its become my thing. It's like, without it, I'm not me. You can't be perfect, so enjoy your imperfections. I can't stress that enough.

I know some people like to follow the tradition, and that's who they are. That's not me.

If you're always thinking about someone else's work, about the tradition you're working in, how can you possibly make anything good?

I'm one of those pianists who tends to ignore every existing recording and lots of traditions about playing pieces when I start.

I want to leave my own legacy, make my own trail.

I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don't have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later on, the dresses are OK, but I like to sketch, and I like to see trails made after my sketches that look the same. It is you know, what I like.

It's fun to be a little bit different in the world, to make a few new trails of your own.

I don't do anything on stage that allows me to become a trained seal, where you're just doing the same thing over and over.

You always try to do your own thing. One of the things I wanted to do was to write a book that combines some of the best traits of contemporary fantasy with some of the traits of the historical novel.

I am a cisgender woman who has always had a lot of female friends. While many of us have traits in common, none of us will ever be exactly the same. So it's enormously important to me that my female characters be people, and be allowed to be whatever they need to be.

Everyone has their own traits but if you are being compared to players like Rio Ferdinand then you must be doing something well and hopefully I can keep that going.

Humans are the most complicated, nuanced things that exist. We can't be reduced to labels or summed up with five traits - even if they are the Big Five.

What I always say is, 'To each his own.' Everybody has a different trajectory or path in life.

In the art world, originality is seen as a precious commodity and its increasingly difficult to get because the territory of art is so trampled.

To transcend and be yourself... I have no reason to tell you, and others, something that is not of interest to you.

Not only was I the only black kid and the only poor kid, but my parents were transcendental meditation devotees, and I live in an ashram for a good portion of my childhood.

In what transcends this world, the best is Messi because he is incredible: he does things that nobody can do.

There are some similarities, I think, with all the characters I play. I'm not a guy who sees the desire to transform with each part; I'm not a piece of clay.

As beavers build dams and bees build hives, human beings have spears. Or take the high intelligence of human beings, the ability to make plans, to transmit information - that was also there before, but that, together with the tools, was not enough to make man special.

There's gonna be a lot of great songs, but there ain't going to be another 'Trap Queen.'

Not every bitch is a queen. Most chicks are just regular. Most of them know it and accept it, as long as nobody points it out. A queen is authentic, not because she says so, just because she is. A queen doesn't have to say nothing. Everybody can see it, and feel it, too.

To each is own