We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
The Lounge Lizards were relating with a tradition and it was like I was playing within a musical context. The guitar playing stood out as being different in some way. That was a real education for me.
Recognizing Quebec as being different, recognizing our history, recognizing our identity, has never meant a weakening of Quebec and has never been a threat to national unity.
I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man, all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her.
With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.
I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
If you want to be financially-free, you need to become a different person than you are today and let go of whatever has held you back in the past.
No one has a monopoly on our unending story of nationhood; no one has the manual for our nationhood.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.
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.
All my family, my blood, is mixed up now. They don't even all know each other. I just hope they don't never hate or fight each other, not knowin who they are. Cause all these people livin are brothers and sisters and cousins. All these beautiful different colors! We!... We the human Family. God says so! FAMILY!
Dear America, I suppose we should introduce ourselves: We're South Louisiana...You probably already know that we talk funny and listen to strange music and eat things you'd probably hire an exterminator to get out of your yard. We dance even if there's no radio. We drink at funerals. We talk too much and laugh too loud and live too large and, frankly, we're suspicious of others who don't.
God will not pour fresh, creative ideas and blessing into old attitudes.
The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am now, didn't exist at all. Will the same thing happen in the next five years? I hope so.
Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person.
There’s a lot of stress out there, and to handle it, you just need to believe in yourself, always go back to the person that you know you are and don’t let anybody tell you any different, because everyone’s special and everyone’s awesome.
There is a thing about beauty. Beauty is always associated with the male fantasy of what the female body is. I don’t think there is anything wrong with beauty. It’s just what women think is beautiful can be different. And there can be a beauty in individualism. If there is a wart or a scar, this can be beautiful, in a sense, when you paint it.
It's okay for Christians throughout centuries to exterminate races and for their priests to rape little kids throughout decades, but trying to give the people the power to think and be individual, that's evil?
I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.
As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has-or ever will have-something inside that is unique to all time.
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
I believe when we look different and carry something different, people are going to see that and want it too.
Strategy is about setting yourself apart from the competition. It's not a matter of being better at what you do - it's a matter of being different at what you do.
As daughters of God we are each unique and different in our circumstances and experiences. And yet our part matters—because we matter.
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