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"We have a saying in France. A dog doesn't make a cat."
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"He got why Eleanor tried so hard to look different. Sort of. It was because she was different - because she wasn't afraid to be."
"When you find yourself wanting to turn your children, or pupils, or even your neighbours, into people exactly like yourself, remember that God probably never meant them to be that. You and they are different organs, intended to do different things."
"Life is too short as we all know it to be. So why dare to spend it trying to live up to other people's worldly expectations of you?"
"I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16 I wasn't interested in high school at all and figured that college might be more entertaining."
"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people."
"She said my glasses made me look like a butch jock's locker room bitch."
"The world doesn't celebrate your similarity but your difference."
"Stuck in my own trap of writing about a nonsubject, I think I can defend my own self-respect, and also the integrity of a lost girl, by saying two things. First, the trivial doings of Paris Hilton are of no importance to me, or anyone else, and I should not be forced to contemplate them. Second, she should be left alone to lead such a life as has been left to her. If this seems paradoxical, then very well."
"Dare to be different."
"Nothing is more ridiculous than one person telling another how to live."
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"Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too."
"I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland."
"When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us."
"I did not support any more New York. I lived 10 years there, and after September 11, I felt very European. I did not share the opinion of people in the street, who were deeply influenced by what they heard in the media."
"At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible."
"To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable."
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