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Individuality Quotes
"I feel that everyone has a right to be insane."
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"I wonder in what way I would function as a person, in a society without ever attending school. I'd be myself."
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"No one should part with their individuality and become that of another."
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"What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander but is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the guinea hen."
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"I don't really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits."
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"There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own."
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"Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness."
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"If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything."
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"We were all created to be unique, yet very capable of achieving greatness; but only if we don't allow our thoughts and beliefs to stand against us."
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"I don't want anybody suspecting I am some sheep and part of the Washington D.C. establishment."
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"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity."
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"We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts."
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"For being different, it's easy. But to be unique, it's a complicated thing."
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"A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood."
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"The best thing you've got going for you is individuality."
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"If you blend in, you don't stand out."
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"Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself."
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"Be yourself. Unless you can be a unicorn, In that case, you should always be a unicorn."
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"It's not the name that makes the player. It's the player."
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"Always remember that you have the right to be positively different."
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"Mr Jenkins. Unique, as every star in the sky is unique, every leaf on every tree, every snowflake, every farandola, every cherubim, unique: Named."
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"Solberg, nature's greatest argument against cloning."
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"The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling."
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"I was sort of open to do anything, I was free."
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"There is no such thing as a black middle class."
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"Its ok to be different, the climate is not the same in every mind."
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"Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste."
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"Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing."
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"Be individual, break free from the flock to avoid the predictable midsummer haircut."
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"I may be no better, but at least I am different."
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"We have a saying in France. A dog doesn't make a cat."
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"So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's."
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"To maintain one's individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task."
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"I'm not following anybody's tracks, I'm making my own baby."
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"Don't follow the crowd; let the crowd follow you."
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"The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families."
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"Everyone's face is odd, because we only get one."
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"Learn from all, but copy none and just be yourself."
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"There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity."
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"Have nuts and be nuts."
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"It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, and the rare virtue of thick walls, and the rare virtue of interior spaciousness. Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole. Like the great dome of St. Peter's, and like the great whale, retain, O man! in all seasons a temperature of thine own."
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"I can only be me not thee, as far as the eyes can see!"
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"All pleasure is a vice because seeking pleasure is what everyone does in life, and the worst vice of all is to do what everyone else does."
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"Whosoever would be a man must be a non-conformist."
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"It's okay to be different. It's okay to be unique. It's okay to be weird. It's okay to stand out."
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"She isn't like any of the girls I ever knew, or any of the girls I was myself."
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"What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it."
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"Do something with your one life, instead of following others. While just watching your one life pass you by."
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