I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings that we’ve seen before. It should be more like Willy Wonka… and welcome to my chocolate factory.

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

I am odd-looking. I sometimes think I look like a funny Muppet.

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I’m in a world of my own.

By 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.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

There is no unique picture of reality.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

My style has always been my own, just like my flow and style.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.

I’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.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

I don’t think I would be interested in the climate at all if I had been like everyone else.

Steve 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.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

When 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.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.

We boil at different degrees.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

If 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.

I 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.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

I’m afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.

I 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.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

Maybe 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.

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

Romantic 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.

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

When you’re just like everybody else, you’ve nothing to offer other than your conformity.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

I’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.

Even as a child, Muhammad Ali got perverse pleasure out of being different. He liked the attention it got him, but most of all he just liked being himself: odd and independent.

To 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.

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

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

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

Originality is really important.

We are all special cases.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

The thing that doesn’t fit is the thing that’s the most interesting: the part that doesn’t go according to what you expected.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.

Mickey 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.

How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.

While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.

I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.

It’s a very strange thing being recognized or looked upon as someone special.

I’m not a sheep.

We 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.

Everybody 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.

When I arrived, at first a lot of people were like, ‚This kid is different.‘

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world’s phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

I can simply tell you that since I was a kid, I didn’t like to look like anyone else.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.

Don’t try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.