Oliver James  - Quotes

 why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out 

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Oprah Winfrey  - Quotes

 I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.  

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Hermann Hesse  - Quotes

 We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement. 

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Joss Whedon  - Quotes

 Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck. 

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John Lennon  - Quotes

 I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me. 

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Theodore Roosevelt  - Quotes

 I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit. 

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Jim Morrison  - Quotes

 Where's your will to be weird?  

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Jonathan Safran Foer  - Quotes

 It's so hard to express yourself.'

I understand this.'

I want to express myself.'

The same is true for me.'

I'm looking for my voice.'

It's in your mouth.'

I want to do something I'm not ashamed of.'

Something you are proud of, yes?'

Not even. I just don't want to be ashamed.
 

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Mahatma Gandhi  - Quotes

 I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. 

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Ray Bradbury  - Quotes

 I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room. 

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Dolly Parton  - Quotes

 Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world. 

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Johnny Cash  - Quotes

 I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas. 

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John Lennon  - Quotes

 I was the walrus, but now I am John...and so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over. 

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Friedrich Nietzsche  - Quotes

 You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist. 

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Rita Mae Brown  - Quotes

 I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself. 

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Ayn Rand  - Quotes

 I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities. 

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Oscar Wilde  - Quotes

 I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely 

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George Carlin  - Quotes

 I often warn people:  

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Star Trek: First Contact  - Quotes

 
[Lily berates Picard, alone in his office]
Lily Sloane:
You son of a bitch!
Captain Jean-Luc Picard:
This really isn't the time.
Lily Sloane:
Okay, I don't know jack about the 24th century - but everybody here thinks staying here and fighting the Borg is suicide. They're just afraid to come in here and say it.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard:
The crew is accustomed to following my orders.
Lily Sloane:
They're probably used to your orders making SENSE.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard:
None of them understand the situation... no one can
Lily Sloane:
What's that supposed to mean?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard:
A few years ago I was captured by the Borg. I was assimilated into their collective. I was part of their hive mind. Every peice of my individuality erased. I was part of them. So you can imagine, my dear, I have a unique perspective on the Borg and I know how to fight them. Now if you'll excuse me I have work to do.
Lily Sloane:
I am such an idiot. It's so simple. The Borg hurt you and now you're gonna hurt them back.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard:
In my century we don't succumb to succumb to revenge. We have a more evolved sensibility...
Lily Sloane:
Bullshit! I saw the look your face when you shot those Borg on the Holodeck. You were almost enjoying it!
Captain Jean-Luc Picard:
How dare you?
Lily Sloane:
Oh, come on, Captain. You're not the first man to get a thrill out of murdering someone! I see it all the time!
Lily Sloane:
Get out!
Lily Sloane:
Or what? You'll kill me; like you killed Ensign Lynch?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard:
There was no way to save him.
Lily Sloane:
You didn't even try! Where was your evolved sensibility then?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard:
This is not about revenge.
Lily Sloane:
Liar!
Captain Jean-Luc Picard:
This is about saving the future of humanity!
Lily Sloane:
Jean Luc blow up the damn ship!
Captain Jean-Luc Picard:
NO! Nooooooooooooo! [He smashes the models on the conference room wall]
Captain Jean-Luc Picard:
I will not sacifice the Enterprise. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They invade our space and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further! And I will make them pay for what they've done!
Lily Sloane:
You broke your little ships.
 

Jim Morrison  - Quotes

 The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first. 

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Ralph Waldo Emerson  - Quotes

 To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. 

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David Sedaris  - Quotes

 All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints. 

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Judy Garland  - Quotes

 Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else. 

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Margaret Mead  - Quotes

 Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful. 

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Marcel Duchamp  - Quotes

 The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.  

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Ralph Waldo Emerson  - Quotes

 Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. 

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Friedrich Nietzsche  - Quotes

 The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. 

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W. Somerset Maugham  - Quotes

 The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes. 

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Ludwig Wittgenstein  - Quotes

 I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own. 

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Jean M. Auel  - Quotes

 Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed. 

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William S. Burroughs  - Quotes

 To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I never had a place I could call home that meant any more than a key to a house, apartment or hotel room.  

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Jerry Spinelli  - Quotes

 Who are you?'

I didn't understand the question.

I'm Uri', he said. 'What's your name?'

I gave him my name. 'Stopthief.
 

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Herb Ritts  - Quotes

 Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen.  

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Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time  - Quotes

 Ron:
'Scuse me, scary orb thing? Where are you taking us?
Robot:
The attitude adjustment center.
Kim:
Isn't that the high school?
Robot:
Prepare to be drained of all individuality and spirit.
Ron:
Yep, high school.
 

Edith Sitwell  - Quotes

 I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish. 

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Adrian Uter  - Quotes

 To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone. 

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Carl Sagan  - Quotes

 Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. 

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Gustave Flaubert  - Quotes

 Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul 

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John Stuart Mill  - Quotes

 But these few are the salt of the earth; without them, human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it they who introduce good things which did not before exist, it is they who keep the life in those which already existed. 

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Friedrich Nietzsche  - Quotes

 The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. 

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Mark Twain  - Quotes

 Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. 

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Earl Warren  - Quotes

 The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual. 

Michel de Montaigne  - Quotes

 If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways. 

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Harvey Fierstein  - Quotes

 Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. 

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Dr. Seuss  - Quotes

 Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind. 

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Eric Hoffer  - Quotes

 It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millenia. 

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Booth Tarkington  - Quotes

 Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough. 

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Ralph Waldo Emerson  - Quotes

 To be yourself in a in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. 

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Friedrich Nietzsche  - Quotes

 Giving style 

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Rebecca Miller  - Quotes

 Nobody is so weird others can't identify with them. 

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Remy de Gourmont  - Quotes

 To be a member of such a crowd ... is not much to be far removed from solitude; the freedom of everyone is assured by the freedom to which everyone else lays claim.  

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Augusten Burroughs  - Quotes

 I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions. 

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Tom Waits  - Quotes

 My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads.  

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Brian Celio  - Quotes

 Individuality or Unity? I say there's room for both. 

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Martha Graham  - Quotes

 The unique must be fulfilled. 

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Joseph Campbell  - Quotes

 They thought that it would be a disgrace to go forth as a group. Each entered the forest at a point that he himself had chosen, where it was darkest and there was no path. If there is a path it is someone else's path and you are not on the adventure. 

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Rita Mae Brown  - Quotes

 About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all. 

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Coco Chanel  - Quotes

 Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel. 

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Wilhelm Reich  - Quotes

 I want you to stop being subhuman and become 'yourself'. 'Yourself,' I say. Not the newspaper you read, not your vicious neighbor's opinion, but 'yourself.' I know, and you don't, what you really are deep down. Deep down, you are what a deer, your God, your poet, or your philosopher is. But you think you're a member of the VFW, your bowling club, or the Ku Klux Klan, and because you think so, you behave as you do. This too was told you long ago, by Heinrich Mann in Germany, by Upton Sinclair and John Dos Passos in the United States. But you recognized neither Mann nor Sinclair. You recognize only the heavyweight champion and Al Capone. If given your choice between a library and a fight, you'll undoubtedly go to the fight. 

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Mary MacLane  - Quotes

 People say of me, 'She's peculiar.' They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis. 

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