Being Different Quotes - Page 8

• I think we need to take a step back and realize what the real issues are - it's not being from different places or being different.

  Chantelle Brown-Young

  Real, Thinking, Different Place

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I always was a rebel...but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted...and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic, poet, musician. But I cannot be what I am not.

  John Lennon

  Acceptance, Hands, Musician

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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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• 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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• Man's greatness does not consist in being different from the animals that share the earth with him, but in being...conscious of things of which his environment has no inkling.

  Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald

  Animal, Intelligent, Greatness

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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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• Neither in environment nor in heredity can I find the exact instrument that fashioned me, the a.non.y.muse roller that passed upon my life a certain intricate watermark whose unique design becomes visible when the lamp of art is made to shine through life's foolscap.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Unique, Design

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• The cool thing about doing films and being different characters is that it's new everyday and new every project. So, you're always learning something different and you get to do research.

  Julianne Hough

  Character, Everyday, Research

  "Kenny Wormald & Julianne Hough Interview, Foot Loose". Movie Online Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. August 20, 2018.

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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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• I'm interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.

  Agnes Varda

  People, Wish, Trying

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• The only reason I am a star is because of my repression. Nothing else would have driven me through all that if I was 'normal'.

  John Lennon

  Stars, Normal, Reason

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• And of course, Indonesian people are above all scared of being 'different'. Being different here is punished brutally. Different people get mocked, ostracized, raped, tortured, and murdered. They are banned. To be a Communist is banned. To be gay is banned. To be an atheist is banned. To be a Taoist is banned. Being one of a thousand things is banned.

  Andre Vltchek

  Atheist, Gay, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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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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• I feel like I have so many amazing opportunities because of my immigrant mother, my immigrant grandparents. There are so many of us who do come from immigrants - even some people who support Trump's travel ban. I think we need to take a step back and realize what the real issues are - it's not being from different places or being different.

  Chantelle Brown-Young

  Mother, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• I used to hate being different. I used to cry. I wanted to be blonde-haired and blue-eyed like all of my girlfriends. My mom and dad would feel so badly - 'No, it's OK. You'll be happy you're different later.

  Kiana Tom

  Mom, Girlfriend, Dad

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• Do others, I wondered, "see things as I do? I do not think so, for if they did they would not still be alive." And, life-threatening though my vision seemed, I would not repudiate it: "Sometimes I think I shall die from being different even as I cling to the difference fiercely."

  Nancy Mairs

  Thinking, Differences, Vision

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• It's really cool to have the ability to try on being different people and to explore some parts of yourself because you get to know yourself better. You get to know parts of yourself that you haven't met before.

  Amandla Stenberg

  People, Trying, Really Cool

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Diversity, or the state of being different, isn't the same as inclusion. One is a description of what is, while the other describes a style of interaction essential to effective teams and organizations.

  Bill Crawford

  Team, Organization, Diversity

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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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• You ready? I have gold teeth, I have braids, I'm wearing Rick Owens moon boots, I have rips in my denim, a biker vest, I love artsy girls, my favourite artists are Jimi Hendrix and John Lennon. I'm obsessed with being different.

  ASAP Rocky

  Girl, Rip, Artist

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• Everything combines for the works of Merzbow. I don't see them as being different and separate. ...Music and art is not separate. I mix rock sounds and art together .

  Richard Pinhas

  Art, Rocks, Together

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• For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices.

  Hannah Arendt

  Choices, Infinite, Possibility

  Hannah Arendt (2000). “The Portable Hannah Arendt”, Penguin Group USA

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• I want to encourage kids to speak up, to tell their stories. That is the only way people will know what we have to go through. Believe in yourself. Someone once told me being different isn't bad - different is just different!

  Lauren Potter

  Believe, Kids, People

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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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• 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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