Being Different Quotes - Page 8

• What's the use in being different when it's being different that's the same.

  John Hartford

  Life, Different, Use

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• It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different. Now I understand that I've gotten to enjoy things that others have not, whether it's the laughter, the poetry of my Spanish language - I love Spanish poetry, because my grandmother loved it - our food, our music. Everything about my culture has given me enormous education and joy.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Laughter, Growing Up, Grandmother

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• We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies?

  Edward Young

  Inspirational, Being Unique, Born

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• Nobody understood what it was like to be black and Jewish... being different from everyone else just made me a lot stronger.

  Drake

  Life, Black, Stronger

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• The point here is what makes human beings different from other creatures is our ability to use language. We can use words to express ourselves in very eloquent and complex ways. We grow up telling and listening to stories. That's what turns us into the people we are.

  Flemming Rose

  Growing Up, People, Listening

  Source: theundercurrent.org

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• It didn't matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My name was different. I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Names, Clothes, Parent

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• All through my life, I didn't really consider my eyes at all, and then I became an actress. It's great, I guess. They're just in my face, and one is green and one is blue. It's different, and I'm definitely a proponent of being different in any way you can in life, so I guess if you're born a bit different that's a good thing.

  Alice Eve

  Eye, Blue, Green

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• Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is to be used lightly.

  Criss Jami

  Artist, Labels, Littles

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.67, Criss Jami

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• When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.

  Barry Zito

  Successful, People, Guy

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• I'm used to always being different, in any context. People always want to know how I grew up, so I just say I grew up Muslim. That's the truth. Two Muslim girls can write me two extremely different letters - and they do. Some are very supportive, and some question what I do.

  Noureen DeWulf

  Girl, Writing, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I wanted to be heard myself, which is hard in a household of people who were very showy. It forced me to find myself and define a personality and a way of being different, and that's a thing that's going to help me to survive in a world of many people playing the guitar.

  Martha Wainwright

  Guitar, People, Personality

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• Unfortunately, in some parts of the country, some kids are taught at an early age that being different is somehow bad or wrong or worthy of ridicule.

  Matt Bomer

  Country, Kids, Age

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Saturday Night Live is a show that I think I could have a lot of fun on, just being different characters and maybe singing, too.

  Jill Scott

  Fun, Character, Night

  "Jill Scott Talks FRINGE, Why She Wanted the Role, Hopes for Her Character, Being Part of the Final Season, Working with the Cast and Future Guest Spots". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 8, 2012.

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• If this was a movie, we would've sat down at the table with the guys and they would have learned some kind of valuable lesson, like not to judge people by how they look, or that being different is okay. And Lena would've learned that all jocks weren't stupid and shallow. It always seemed to work in movies, but this wasn't a movie. This was Gatlin, which severely limited what could happen.

  Kami Garcia

  Stupid, People, Judging

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• In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Strength, Beauty

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wit and Wisdom of Maya Angelou”, p.9, Hachette UK

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• Adolescents sense a secret, unique greatness in thems.elves that seeks expression. They gesture towards the heart when trying to express any of this, a significant clue to the whole affair.

  Joseph Chilton Pearce

  Heart, Unique, Greatness

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• Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different.

  Samuel Hall Lord

  Different, Sake, Express Yourself

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• I trained at The Groundlings and was surrounded by some very funny women and also some very unfunny men. I didn't feel a sense of things being different because I was a girl.

  Kaitlin Olson

  Girl, Men, Feels

  "It's Always Sunny with Kaitlin Olson". Interview with Tim Surette, www.tv.com. October 8, 2008.

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• I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Parent, Different, Wanted

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• What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love?

  E. Lockhart

  Color, What If, Backgrounds

  E. Lockhart (2014). “We Were Liars”, p.203, Delacorte Press

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• If you celebrate your differentness, the world will, too. It believes exactly what you tell it-through the words you use to describe yourself, the actions you take to care for yourself, and the choices you make to express yourself. Tell the world you are one-of-a-kind creation who came here to experience wonder and spread joy. Expect to be accommodated.

  Victoria Moran

  Life, Beauty, Being Yourself

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• Don't focus on being different, focus on being yourself - and your difference will naturally shine through!

  Kevin Eikenberry

  Being Yourself, Differences, Focus

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• Being different is a talent. You illuminate what makes you special in the sea of sameness around you.

  Lady Gaga

  Sea, Special, Talent

  FaceBook post by Lady Gaga from Feb 17, 2014

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• I am showing solidarity while being different. Or if you prefer, I am being different while being in solidarity.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Different, Solidarity, Ifs

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• The relentless pursuit of being different is very French.

  Alain Ducasse

  Relentless, Pursuit, Different

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