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  • 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.

  • I would never be part of anything. I would never really belong anywhere, and I knew it, and all my life would be the same, trying to belong, and failing. Always something would go wrong. I am a stranger and I always will be, and after all I didn’t really care.

  • I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense.

    "Writing plays, righting wrongs" by Beth Dozoretz, www.politico.com. September 24, 2013.
  • My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship without a rudder. My art is grounded in reflections over being different from others. My sufferings are part of my self and my art. They are indistinguishable from me, and their destruction would destroy my art. I want to keep those sufferings

    Art   Reflection   Self  
  • I don’t think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience of life. All he has to do is recognize it and then cultivate it and get going with it. I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I’ve never met an ordinary man, woman, or child.

    Life   Children   Women  
    Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony
  • It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

    Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. August 16, 2000.
  • It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.

  • 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.

    Atheist   Gay   People  
    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.

    Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.371, Ballantine Books
  • Being different is awesome! All of those who are different are more interesting than those who are clamoring for acceptance because they follow the path.

  • 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.

    FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Nov 19, 2012
  • Love being different, embrace it, share it, live it because being different is not a curse but a gift we all posses that defines who we are and makes the world a better place.

  • 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.

    Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.19, Penguin
  • If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.

  • And I guess I'm a kid at heart in that when I go for entertainment, I want to be totally transported. I want to go somewhere else; I want to encounter different things, different beings, different universes. And so I love that aspect of being able to play those things in both 'True Blood' and in 'American Horror Story.'

    Heart   Kids   Blood  
  • Immorality does not consist in being different. It consists in not allowing others to be so.

    Shakuntala Devi (1977). “The world of homosexuals”, Lawrence Verry Incorporated
  • People May Hate You For Being Different and Not Living By Society's Standards,but Deep Down,They Wish They Had The Courage To Do The Same.

  • No one has a monopoly on our unending story of nationhood; no one has the manual for our nationhood.

  • 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!

    Believe   Kids   People  
  • There’s no need to glamorize one body type and slam another. We need to stop this absurd hatred towards bodies for being different sizes. It doesn’t help anyone and it’s getting old.

  • As I get older, I'm more willing to take on more, I guess. I feel more comfortable kind of being different characters and kind of stretching it a little more. Like with The Visitation. At least for me, being an actor, I have to draw from human experiences, so it was kind of a stretch playing that role. Kind of supernatural... kind of like what I did in The Crow actually.

    Source: www.movieweb.com
  • 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.

    "Gymnast McKayla Maroney Talks Life Post-Olympics, Becoming A Meme & How She De-Stresses". Interview with Carolyn Gregoire, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2013.
  • Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

  • As soon as you can say what you think and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man.

    James M. Barrie (2013). “Tommy And Grizel (Annotated Edition)”, p.25, Jazzybee Verlag
  • I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.

  • People would rather be wrong than be different.

  • I like books that have razor-sharp plotting that snaps and moves along. It's not about the main character being different at the end. I don't want my main character to be different in the end. I still want him committed to his ideas, to be steadfast, true and loyal

    Moving   Book   Character  
  • It's simple ... go the extra mile and you will stand out from the crowd

  • We must each learn to feel comfortable in our own uniqueness by rising above the fear of being wrong and the aversion to being different.

    FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Jul 13, 2015
  • We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

    Charles Dudley Warner (1870). “My Summer in a Garden”, p.172
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