Quotes About Uniqueness

Embrace your colour, heritage, whatever you want, but don't let it confine you. Just live without labels.

I don't use labels a lot.

You're not a combination of all your labels. You just are.

I can get others to do what you do. They won't be as good, but  .  .  . okay. It could work. But it doesn't matter because no matter how good they are, they can't replace you. They can't because I don't need you only for what you can do. I need you  .  .  . for you.

You're right", I told him desperately."I can get others to do what you do. They won't be as good, but...okay. It could work. But it doesn't matter because no matter how good they are, they can't replace you. They can't because I don't need you only for what you can do. I need you...for you.

I'm a hard-of-hearing man in the hearing world and I'm a Deaf man with a little hearing in the Deaf world. I'm not one or the other—I'm both! Because Deaf people come all different ways—just like ice cream.

All of them thought Georgia was weird. Then and now, it takes nerve to be weird - and I mean genuinely out of step with everyone else, not hipster-weird, where you affect the weirdness embraced by everyone else at the coffee shop.

Hours later, Adam propped himself up on an elbow and stared down at Gabrielle, pondering what made beauty. He thought he was beginning to understand. It wasn't symmetry of features; it wasn't perfection. It was uniqueness. That which one person had that no other possessed. That which was only their own.

Yes, I have loved, Ms. Lane, and although it's none of your business, I have lost. Many things. And no, I am not like any other player in this game and I will never be like V'lane, and I get a hard-on a great deal more often than occasionally.

You'll never be just anything. A tsunami can never be 'just' a wave.

Not everyone has to like you. Not everyone has taste.

Embrace your weirdness. Some will adore you. Others won't. But who cares? Worry about loving yourself, not loving the idea of other people loving you.

Everyone's got a version of the same story, or maybe there's no such thing as the same story; it's a different story every time.

Assistant to name designer," the ad had said. Yeah, well, she has a name all right. But then, so do we all.

I don't like standard beauty — there is no beauty without strangeness.

The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what's needed by nature, and what's needed is to bring something new.

I've no idea if she's ugly or beautiful; it's kind of irrelevant. As long as it's her.

Tentavo di imparare il suo corpo a memoria, come se dovesse svanire da un momento all'altro (...) E' buffo, lei pensa di essere del tutto insignificante. Non ho idea se sia bella o brutta, per me la cosa è del tutto priva di interesse. Solo lei è come lei.

Let's stop "tolerating" or "accepting" difference, as if we're so much better for not being different. Instead, let's celebrate difference, because in this world it takes a lot of guts to be different and to act differently.

Disney will never make a movie about my life story, and that's a shame--I'd make a really cute animated creature.

We just want to identify the "real" freaks, so we can feel closer to normal. In reality, not a single one of us is so magically normative as to claim the right to separate out the freaks from everyone else. We are all freaks to someone. Maybe even—if we're honest—to ourselves.

Women have waited millions of years growing separate as another species, with visions and priorities no man-words, no man-measurements can comprehend.

Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.

Among all the wisdom and facts I learned from Giannon, I also learned the loneliness of incarnation, in which there is inevitably a separation of souls because of the uniqueness of our faces and our experiences. And I learned also the moments when the current of my life joins the current of another life, and I can glimpse for a moment the one flowing body of water we all compose.