I’m not a sheep.
Christopher HitchensI’ve never bought into any sort of hard and fast, this-box/that-box characterization. People are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be a particular way. But that doesn’t mean they’re going to be that way.
Margaret AtwoodTo be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
E. E. CummingsDisneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
Walt DisneyI’m inspired by Walt Disney. I’m inspired by Howard Hughes. I’m inspired by Henry Ford. I’m inspired by Steve Jobs. I mean, I’m inspired by James Perse.
Kanye WestWhat you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.
Ludwig van BeethovenEverybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.
Vivienne WestwoodIn order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.
Albert CamusWhen I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.
Lady GagaIf everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
George S. PattonStay hungry, stay foolish.
Steve JobsDon’t try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.
Jackie ChanImperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
Marilyn MonroeI would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I’m sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don’t even know when you’re being compromised till after the fact, and that’s what you regret.
Kanye WestThese things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.
Ayrton SennaMost people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar WildeRomantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.
Oscar WildeThis has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it.
Frank OceanThere are definitely elements of experience and stuff that someone who’s my age wouldn’t have. But there are also things that I can do that other people wouldn’t necessarily be able to.
Mark ZuckerbergThere isn’t anybody that looks like me without clothes on.
Marilyn MonroeGreat men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
Ralph Waldo EmersonGod made me and broke the mold.
Jean-Jacques RousseauOriginality is really important.
Jim CarreyIf a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David ThoreauHow lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.
Mark TwainWe are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit.
Stephen HawkingEvery band I’ve worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they’ve gone somewhere that nobody else has been.
Brian EnoIt’s very unnatural to be someone for so many people. But of course it’s very nice.
AuroraNever do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
Amelia EarhartOn the other hand, you have different fingers.
Steven WrightI am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I’m in a world of my own.
Muhammad AliI didn’t want to just be another girl singer. I wanted there to be something that set me apart.
Taylor SwiftI may be no better, but at least I am different.
Jean-Jacques RousseauWhen I arrived, at first a lot of people were like, ‚This kid is different.‘
Bad BunnyTo such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.
Leonardo da VinciWhen we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.
David ByrneBy the sole fact of his entering into ‚Thought,‘ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinEverybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what’s underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don’t think it ever will be.
Lady GagaThe best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert FrostThe worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerI have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamMickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
Walt DisneyI don’t really have a gimmick or a ‚thing.‘ I’m one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.
DrakeI think everyone’s inherently snobbish. Things that are very popular are not taken seriously, because the snobbish side of one says, ‚Well, if everyone likes it it can’t be that good.‘ Whereas if only I and a couple of other people like it, then it must be really something special.
Brian EnoI have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.
Haruki MurakamiWe boil at different degrees.
Clint EastwoodThere is no such things as ‚best‘ in the world of individuals.
Hosea BallouI never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
Frank ZappaOur diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.
Angelina JolieIt took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we’d given customers what they said they wanted, we’d have built a computer they’d have been happy with a year after we spoke to them – not something they’d want now.
Steve JobsWhen you’re just like everybody else, you’ve nothing to offer other than your conformity.
Wayne DyerWhile children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamWe view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.
Blaise PascalOriginality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
Thomas CarlyleMaybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don’t have names for what they are or haven’t identified them all. We can’t pinpoint exactly what makes each city’s people unique yet.
David ByrneI don’t see myself as ever being like anybody else.
Lady GagaI specifically did not read other First Ladies‘ books, because I didn’t want to be influenced by how they defined the role. I knew that I would have to find this role – very uniquely and specifically to me and who I was.
Michelle ObamaI’m afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.
David ByrneI don’t think I would be interested in the climate at all if I had been like everyone else.
Greta ThunbergSteve Jobs‘ ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.
Bill Gates