Quotes About Uniqueness

I've worn my share of leopard pink boots to premieres or belts the size of cars. I thought my pink leopard boots were so cool.

I'm not good at normal things. I can't drive a car. I couldn't read till I was 10.

We meet no ordinary people in our lives. If you give them a chance, everyone has something amazing to offer.

In an age where there is much talk about "being yourself," I reserve to myself the right to forget about being myself, since in any case there is very little chance of my being anybody else.

All the blues greats took chances and developed their own style. They didn't copy.

I don't think people were betting on me, but they were giving me a chance. I think I rode a wave there, by being different in appearance than the girls who preceded me.

Don't you ever realise, said Helen, that the way we live is unlike the way other people live? On the whole I should have thought that was cause for satisfaction.

Rose said: 'Some people would be needing their spare glasses, or that blue cardigan. You need a book. Of course.' 'A deficiency?'said Charlotte meekly. 'Not at all. The need defines you, that's all.

You were... Well, you were who you were.' 'We're all that,' says Claudia. 'It's something one has to overcome.

Remember, this is the country of the duck-billed platypus. When you are cut off from the rest of the world, things are bound to develop in interesting ways.

Resist the temptation to redesign seats on the bus to specific personalities (except for the exceptionally rare genius)

She's not royalty for Christ's sake. She's a Grape.

It's the same world as ours but also a different world because no two people see it in exactly the same way.

are more like Dog and Cat and Bird than like Lassie and Fido and Spot. Therefore

life is a collection of similarities rather than identities; no single observation is a perfect example of generality.

Cass had photo recall and could speak backward at will. Aly was a hacker genius and movie expert. Marco was Michael Jordan on steroids, without the steroids. I was chopped liver.

Normal is the enemy of interesting.

Separated from the herd, it gains identity.

For Elvis, individual style came unconsciously, from within, demanding expression years before he could have been categorized as an artist. His unique appearance was uncontrived, something that emerged from him, rather than something put onto him.

The idea that one man's unique personal vision is greater than the importance of fashions in art or mainstream type philosophy.

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They were a form of mutated twinning, joined at the base of the skull so that a single cephalic structure served both separate bodies. Evidently the personality George inhabited one hemisphere of the brain, made use of one eye: the right, as he recalled. And the personality Walt existed on the other side, distinct with its own idiosyncrasies, views and drives—and its own eye from which to view the outside universe.

What does it mean, to die? he wondered. Uniqueness always perishes. Nature works by overproducing each species; uniqueness is a fault, a failure of nature. For survival there should be hundreds, thousands, even millions of one species, all interchangeable—if all but one dies, then nature has won. Generally it loses. But himself. I am unique, he realized. So I am doomed, Every man is unique and hence doomed. A melancholy thought.

No two things were the same ever. No two stones, mice, drops of water, snowflakes. What did they call it? Nominalism. Perhaps it applied to people, to the same person at different times. There was no same person.