Quotes About Distinctiveness

Normal is just what's average, it's not necessarily the only way of being, or living

I think twins can sometimes be shoved into the same mold and they can start to feel like they're not being given a chance to develop their own identities.

I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.

I don't really have a type. I don't want to be a cliche. But personality is a big thing for me. You can find cute guys all over. But he's got to have some sort of sense of humor, which is so hard to find in a guy. He's got to be a bit smart.

A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music.

Remember that, ultimately, it is your differences that make you who you are and distinguish you from the bland and humdrum, and without your differences you can never hope to truly be special.

Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction.

Has every oyster a different taste?

Ja wszystkim kogo? przypominam. ?ci?lej mówi?c, ka?demu kogo? innego przypominam. To tak, jakby mnie w ogóle nie by?o. Mnie pojedynczego, indywidualnego, z w?asnym niepowtarzalnym kodem genetycznym.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

One is the left shoe and the other is the right. They are the same but not interchangeable.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

I wasn't intentionally trying to be different, but that was an element of what I naturally do that happened to be unique enough to spark a curiosity for people.

I'd rather be a big fish in a specialized pond than a little, little fish in a more generalized big pond.

Species can be recognized by their morphological characteristics and songs.

You're doing it to make the character as specific as possible, so that it's a specific individual that you're talking about, not that whole class of people.

I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.

Janelle Monae, she has her own style, and it's specifically hers.

I try not to shy away from specificity.

A different spice is the most interesting thing to me.

Just as God gave different fingers to the hand so has He given different ways to men.

There are no men like me. There's only me

Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans — language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with this: Man is the only animal that likes Tabasco sauce.

All men are different. And should do everything possible to continue to be so.