Quotes About Uniqueness

What we need is equality without conformity.

Anyone who ever loves anyone truly loves them because of their indefinable essence, not because they conform to some checklist.

Pete, it doesn't matter how you move as long as you are being you.

If you want to be cool, just be you.

Some people are just afraid of what's different. It doesn't mean different is bad. It just means different is different.

You're not like other people and it pains me to see you do something so common when I know there's much more to you than that. (Jack) How do you know? (Lorelei) I see it every time I look at you. You have a passion for life that burns so bright it almost singes me to be near it. Every time I see you suppress that fire it pains me. I don't want anything to extinguish that fire. (Jack)

See? You're the crazy one, you redheaded freak. I've been attempting to translate the phrase into Latin. If I ever succeed, I shall make it my personal motto.

I don't want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.

I have my own identity ... The whole Michael thing does drive me nuts sometimes because people won't leave it alone. He's bald, I have hair. He's almost 40, I'm 22. Seriously though, I wish people would let it be and let me just be Kobe.

It would seem that marsupials are poor imitations of full-fledged mammals. Their inadequacy gives them a certain appeal.

Everyone has his own philosophy that doesn't hold good for anybody else.

My look, mind you, is not chocolate like Lauryn Hill, Whoopi Goldberg, or Naomi Campbell - it is pitch black and shimmering like the purple outer space of the universe. I am the charcoal that creates diamonds. I am the blackest black woman (41).

Her unusual dark hair and sultry eyes made her stand out--- Anne Boleyn was Tudor England's Angelina Jolie amid a sea of Reese Witherspoons.

By being what only I can be, I give humanity what only I can give. It is my uniqueness that allows me to contribute something unique to the universal heritage of humankind. I sum up the Jewish imperative, very simply—and it has been like this since the days of Abraham: to be true to your faith is a blessing to others regardless of their faith. That's the big paradox when you really reach the very depth of particularity.

I don't know why it is, how it is, but it's the authentic, the unique, the different that makes us feel enriched when we encounter it. And a bland, plastic, synthetic, universal can't-tell-one-brand-of-coffee-from-another-brand-of-coffee by contrast makes life flat, uninteresting, and essentially uncreative.

No wonder nothing had worked. No one else was him.

For twelve years, I've been trying to make him just one of the guys. He's not.

I don't want to discredit people's individuality, but I think people are pretty much the same. People are very similar. If you have a good enough imagination then you can feel things that you personally have never done before. That's acting.

I'm not Jane Eyre for goodness' sake.

There is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

I am less and less a creature of influences in myself which operate beyond my ken in the realms of the unconscious. I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality, my 'isness,' become more of my uniqueness, more of my potentiality.

Das Persönliche ist das Allgmeine.

Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.

Or if they share any other characteristic. If we think about it carefully, every configuration is particular, every configuration is singular, if we look at all of its details, since every configuration always has something about it that characterizes it in a unique way. Just as, to its mother, every child is particular and unique.