Quotes About Uniqueness

Nobody's going to tell me how to be different, so stop asking me. Stop asking me what two-plus-two is. Everybody knows two-plus-two is five.

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

My days of being the tardy employee at the record store gave me a cultural and musical understanding that was more unique than if I'd just listened to garbage-y pop on the radio my entire life.

When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.

No two of our stores are the same.

I wasn't like other boys. At any rate, I wasn't like my three elder brothers: they excelled at football and they were like other boys, going up to bed each night hugging annuals filled with stories about the glories of Pele and Danny McGrain.

One of my favorite stories was Black Orchid, because it was so different from all the others. I especially enjoyed dancing the Charleston. I have always been keen on dancing.

Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.

Like the greats, you want to make your own story yourself, and not be a copy of another.

Everyone's story is different, and we can't really be inside them.

Everybody has their own story - it's who you are. If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am!

I always wanted to make the matches in some way different unique and interesting. I never wanted to have that basic match. I just wanted us to stand out in some way or another, whether it was storytelling or interesting wrestling moves.

Beauty is that little something that fills the whole world, and is contained neither in a single straight nose, a long eyelash, nor a blue mountain. Some see it in a leg of mutton, others in a compound fracture; and to expect others to accept one's own definition of it is as absurd as to expect all humanity to use the same toilet-brush.

When I sang, I couldn't help making those little curves. People would say, 'Why don't you sing straight?' But I have always had to put something in.

When we were little, our parents couldn't tell us apart from the side or the back, they had to look at us straight on.

In my planet, fashion, I'm the only straight man.

For years I used to try to straighten my hair, but I've reached a stage where I think, 'I've got red curly hair, and it's actually really great.'

We live in world that wants to burnish the rough edges and straighten the crooked line, but conformity doesn't beget greatness.

People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.

What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others.

I don't think anyone except the few people who have played James Bond can tell you how strange and special it is and how much your life changes.

The world would be a strange place if everyone liked each other.

I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.