Quotes About Uniqueness

Ultimately, and I can appreciate this as I get older, those quirks and those differences are what I find so attractive about other people, that's what I think being beautiful is.

It ain't easy to break out of a mold, but if you do your work, people will ultimately see what you're capable of. Too often, people find it easier to make assumptions and stick with what they believe. They put you in a place and it makes their job easier. The good people constantly search for something different.

It's possible I'm a weird person, you know, and if I could only write for people who are like me, I wouldn't have any audience at all. Ultimately, I'm my audience. I'm writing stories for myself. I don't have kids of my own, and I don't hang around kids all that much. Maybe that puts me at a disadvantage.

I was not a very... um... not a very popular girl. I think a lot of it was, you know, no boo-hoo about it - but I looked pretty strange for the first few years of my life.

There are so many individuals. We're not going to all have the same ways of being or priorities or personalities. You can't have this umbrella thing. Even if you look at other artists my age, people are making completely different music and have different goals.

It's unbelievable how much talent there is among shortstops. They all bring something a little different to the table.

If there is a flaw in the academy system it's that they try to tell them everything. Kids are taught the same. They look the same. So you're constantly looking for the X factor. It's the hardest thing, that mystical ingredient, instinct, the four-second hit, like/dislike, it can come unbelievably quickly.

There are so many artists that are dyslexic or learning disabled, it's just phenomenal. There's also an unbelievably high proportion of artists who are left-handed, and a high correlation between left-handedness and learning disabilities.

No two wars are identical.

All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.

On wedding day you should look like yourself at your most beautiful

Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do

I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools.

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

Individuality is freedom lived.

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

It is foolish to try to imitate the skills of others.

A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good.

Has every oyster a different taste?

Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.

And so, as in every other thing, we are always trying to ignore the standard of another, trying to bind the whole world to our standard.

They Laugh at me because I am different, I laugh at them because they all are the same.

Only dead fish follow the stream.