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Individuality Quotes
"I feel that everyone has a right to be insane."
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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 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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"No one should part with their individuality and become that of another."
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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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"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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"If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything."
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"For being different, it's easy. But to be unique, it's a complicated thing."
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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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"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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"The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families."
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"It's not the name that makes the player. It's the player."
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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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"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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"Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing."
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"There is no such thing as a black middle class."
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"Learn from all, but copy none and just be yourself."
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"If you blend in, you don't stand out."
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"The best thing you've got going for you is individuality."
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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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"Be yourself. Unless you can be a unicorn, In that case, you should always be a unicorn."
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"Its ok to be different, the climate is not the same in every mind."
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"I'm not following anybody's tracks, I'm making my own baby."
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"Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness."
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"We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts."
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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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"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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"Whosoever would be a man must be a non-conformist."
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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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"Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste."
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"We have a saying in France. A dog doesn't make a cat."
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"I was sort of open to do anything, I was free."
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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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"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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"Have nuts and be nuts."
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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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"To maintain one's individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task."
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"I may be no better, but at least I am different."
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"Individuality and creativity are slowly dampened by a normal job with normal people."
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"You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love."
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"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."
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"Don't you know that most people take most things because that's what's given them, and they have no opinion whatever? Do you wish to be guided by what they expect you to think they think or by your own judgment?"
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"If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be."
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