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Individuality Quotes
"I feel that everyone has a right to be insane."
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"It's not the name that makes the player. It's the player."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Be individual, break free from the flock to avoid the predictable midsummer haircut."
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"No one should part with their individuality and become that of another."
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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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"If you blend in, you don't stand out."
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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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"I was sort of open to do anything, I was free."
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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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"I'm not following anybody's tracks, I'm making my own baby."
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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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"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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"Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing."
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"Its ok to be different, the climate is not the same in every mind."
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"Always remember that you have the right to be positively different."
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"There is no such thing as a black middle class."
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"We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts."
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"Learn from all, but copy none and just be yourself."
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"Whosoever would be a man must be a non-conformist."
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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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"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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"I may be no better, but at least I am different."
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"Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness."
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"We have a saying in France. A dog doesn't make a cat."
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"If you have a dream no one else can see, a reward awaits you that no one else can have."
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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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"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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"For being different, it's easy. But to be unique, it's a complicated thing."
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"To maintain one's individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task."
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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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"If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be."
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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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"Have nuts and be nuts."
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"Don't follow the crowd; let the crowd follow you."
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"Weeds blend in, roses stand out."
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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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"Most people want so desperately to be an individual yet are so easily shaped by the media."
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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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"An excellent but an eccentric man in whom the least little thing would, it seemed, often check the flow of his spirits and divert the current of his thoughts."
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"Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste."
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"Individuality and creativity are slowly dampened by a normal job with normal people."
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"Each human being is unique, each with their own qualities, instincts, forms of pleasure, and desire for adventure. However, society always imposes on us a collective ways of behaving, and people never stop to wonder why they should behave like that. They just accept it, the way typists accepted the fact that the QWERTY keyboard was the best possible one. Have you ever met anyone is your entire life who asked why the hands of a clock should go in one particular direction and not the other?"
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