Quotes About Uniqueness

And difference, as he learned that day, inspired a particular kind of savagery.

Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.

Where I make an impression it must be by being most myself.

Remember that sometimes it's when we're simply being ourselves that we make a difference.

I'm unique just like everyone else

You are totally unique. Just like everyone else.

That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!

Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always 20 times better.

Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.

Why does it scare me to think I might be ordinary? I remember when I started first grade and I could hardly pay attention for fear I wouldn't learn to read and write. I didn't want to be like everyone else. I didn't want to have to learn. I wanted to know everything already

Some Socialists seem to believe that people should be numbers in a State computer. We believe they should be individuals. We are all unequal. No one, thank heavens, is like anyone else, however much the Socialists may pretend otherwise. We believe that everyone has the right to be unequal but to us every human being is equally important.

Let our children grow tall and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so.

Why can't she see that no two people are exactly alike? Our hearts and minds are all different. Only our dreams share this same desperate need to rise and soar...

The tattoo attracts and also repels precisely because it is different.

I once complained to my father that I didn't seem to be able to do things the same way other people did. Dad's advice? "Margo, don't be a sheep. People hate sheep. They eat sheep.

I felt freed to please myself, to find my way as I would, in a world that was much vaster than I had realized before, in which I was but one star-gleam, one wavelet, among multitudes. My happiness mattered not a whit more than the next person's - or the next fish's, or the next grass-blade's! - and not a whit less.

I'm not something you fix like a broken plate or revise like a term paper. I'm a person. You love a person by accepting who they are, not constantly fixing them or trying to shape or change or teach them.

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

As Luce Iri- garay explains, "What makes me one, and perhaps even unique, is the fact that you are and I am not you.

My imperfections make me less mournable.

But I ask you, wouldn't it be worse if I were perfect ? My imperfections make me less mournable.

Y puede, puede así, que las muertes no sean to­das iguales. Puede que hasta después de la muerte, todos sigamos distintos caminos.

I think it's so cool to be tall. Even when I'm not wearing heels people tell me I'm tall and I always take it as a complement. The good thing is I can always see everybody in the room.

En realidad le importaba poco integrarse: el concepto de grupo le parecía más bien de "rebaño". Miraba a sus compañeros de facultad o de residencia y sentía que eran todos iguales. Bueno, quizá por grupos, pero iguales. De un solo vistazo podías saber si leían o no y qué, qué música escuchaban y hasta el tipo de chico o chica con que les gustaría salir. A Laura aquello le parecía aburrido. ¿Qué interés podría tener la gente en parecerse?