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Individuality Quotes


"The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families."


"It's okay to be different. It's okay to be unique. It's okay to be weird. It's okay to stand out."


"A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood."


"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."


"If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be."


"The world says fit in, the universe says stand out."


"Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste."


"The best thing you've got going for you is individuality."


"I don't want anybody suspecting I am some sheep and part of the Washington D.C. establishment."


"I may be no better, but at least I am different."


"I'm not following anybody's tracks, I'm making my own baby."


"Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness."


"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."


"We have a saying in France. A dog doesn't make a cat."


"If you have a dream no one else can see, a reward awaits you that no one else can have."


"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."


"Don't follow the crowd; let the crowd follow you."


"Weeds blend in, roses stand out."


"There is no such thing as a black middle class."


"We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts."


"It's not the name that makes the player. It's the player."


"If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything."


"I feel that everyone has a right to be insane."


"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."


"What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it."


"No one should part with their individuality and become that of another."


"You are not here to be somebody's shadow; you are here to be the light."


"As plants do not grow in the dark, never allow yourself to be in someone's shadow."


"Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself."


"Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing."


"I was sort of open to do anything, I was free."


"For being different, it's easy. But to be unique, it's a complicated thing."


"To maintain one's individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task."
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