Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for 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.
Today you are you! That is truer than true!
Not chance of birth or place has made us friends, Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations, But the endeavor for the selfsame ends, With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.
If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.
I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it.
I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.
Then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... You give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore.
I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.
We live now in a global village and we are in one single family. It's our responsibility to bring friendship and love from all different places around the world and to live together in peace.
I saw the excitement, going to different places, being able to explore emotion in a healthy way.
The panic of the Depression loosened my inhibitions against being different. I could be myself.
I don't think people were betting on me, but they were giving me a chance. I think I rode a wave there, by being different in appearance than the girls who preceded me.
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.
We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship.
If you want reality to be different than it is, you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
Celebration has many different outfits but she always wears the same beautiful dancing shoes.
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.
I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.
Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.
Drop guilt! - because to be guilty is to live in hell. Not being guilty, you will have the freshness of dewdrops in the early morning sun, you will have the freshness of lotus petals in the lake, you will have the freshness of the stars in the night. Once guilt disappears you will have a totally different kind of life, luminous and radiant. You will have a dance to your feet and your heart will be singing a thousand and one songs.
No two people have the same reality
Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
The point I would make is that the novelist and the historian are seeking the same thing: the truth – not a different truth: the same truth – only they reach it, or try to reach it, by different routes. Whether the event took place in a world now gone to dust, preserved by documents and evaluated by scholarship, or in the imagination, preserved by memory and distilled by the creative process, they both want to tell us how it was: to re-create it, by their separate methods, and make it live again in the world around them.
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
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