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Individuality Quotes
"I feel that everyone has a right to be insane."
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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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"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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"No one should part with their individuality and become that of another."
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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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"I don't want anybody suspecting I am some sheep and part of the Washington D.C. establishment."
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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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"For being different, it's easy. But to be unique, it's a complicated thing."
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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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"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."
48
"It's not the name that makes the player. It's the player."
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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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"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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"The best thing you've got going for you is individuality."
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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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"There is no such thing as a black middle class."
44
"Be yourself. Unless you can be a unicorn, In that case, you should always be a unicorn."
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"If you blend in, you don't stand out."
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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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"Be individual, break free from the flock to avoid the predictable midsummer haircut."
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"Always remember that you have the right to be positively different."
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"I may be no better, but at least I am different."
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"We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts."
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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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"Solberg, nature's greatest argument against cloning."
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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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"I was sort of open to do anything, I was free."
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"Its ok to be different, the climate is not the same in every mind."
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"Have nuts and be nuts."
40
"Learn from all, but copy none and just be yourself."
40
"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."
40
"Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste."
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"Whosoever would be a man must be a non-conformist."
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"To maintain one's individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task."
39
"The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families."
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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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"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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"Do something with your one life, instead of following others. While just watching your one life pass you by."
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"Everyone's face is odd, because we only get one."
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"Don't follow the crowd; let the crowd follow you."
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"I'm not following anybody's tracks, I'm making my own baby."
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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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"She isn't like any of the girls I ever knew, or any of the girls I was myself."
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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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"Most people want so desperately to be an individual yet are so easily shaped by the media."
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