Quotes About Uniqueness

I feel like women are so specific and special, that there's no point as a woman to emulate somebody. If you shoot for a masculine direction but be yourself, you're going to get something completely new, because your femininity will show up.

Las familias felices son todas iguales; las familias infelices lo son cada una a su manera.

Each death is as unique as each life.

This thing about looking for someone less different... It only really worked, he realized, if you were convinced that being you wasn't so bad in the first place.

A veces hemos de ser juzgados por nuestros actos únicos.

Being a freak isn't the same thing as having a talent.

My genius, if I can call it that, is to combine a whole lot of averageness into one compact frame.

This thing about looking for someone less different… It only really worked, he realized, if you were convinced that being you wasn't so bad in the first place.

My genius, if I can call it that, is to combine a whole load of averageness into one compact frame.

in the same way that Lee Harvey Oswald couldn't really claim that shooting presidents wasn't like him at all. Sometimes we have to be judged by our one-offs.

Sometimes we have to be judged by our one-offs.

You're like a sharp bright piece broken from a star. Too sharp, too bright, sometimes, for your own good.

A name, she thinks, is what makes a person who they are. A name is how they know themself.

Sometimes I get the feeling that we're just a bunch of habits. The gestures we repeat over and over, they're just our need to be recognized. Without them, we'd be unidentifiable. We have to reinvent ourselves every minute.

He was an average man. A man willing to accept things as they were, and, because of this, he lacked the potential to be in anyway original.

All these years Litvinoff had imagined he was so much like his friend. He'd prided himself on what he considered their similarities. But the truth was that he was no more like the man fighting a fever in bed ten feet away than he was like the cat that had just slunk off: they were different species.

Picasso (full name Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Clito Ruiz y Picasso)

The recurrence of a phenomenon like [Thomas] Edison is not very likely. The profound change of conditions and the ever increasing necessity of theoretical training would seem to make it impossible. He will occupy a unique and exalted position in the history of his native land, which might well be proud of his great genius and undying achievements in the interest of humanity.

Every one follows his own bent. Man is like a tree. You've never quarrelled with a fig tree because it doesn't bear cherries, have you?

Every one follows his own bent. Man is like a tree. You've never quarrelled with a fig tree because it doesn't bear cherries, have you?

Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.

Life among clones would not be worth living, and a sane person will only rejoice that others have abilities that they do not share. That should be elementary.

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

I have spent a great deal of my life discovering that my ambitions and fantasies - which I once thought of as totally unique - turn out to be clichés