Being Different Quotes - Page 7

• What's important is the tolerance. If people are not beating other people up, or shooting them for being different, then that's progress. Even if the ideas that go through their head are fodder for novelists.

  Nell Zink

  Ideas, People, Tolerance

  "Subjects That Interest Most People". Interview with Amy Feltman, logger.believermag.com. July 20, 2015.

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• We need a sense of the oneness of the 7 billion human beings alive today. When I meet people, I don't think about being different from them, about being Tibetan, Buddhist or even the Dalai Lama. I only think about being a human being. We all share the potential for positive and negative emotions, yet one of our special qualities is our human mind, our intelligence. If we use it well we'll be successful and happy.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Successful, Thinking

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• People would rather be wrong than be different.

  Henry Jacobsen

  Inspiration, People, Conformity

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• If you don't make yourself irreplaceable, somebody will replace you. Being different is being remembered. Being the same is being forgotten.

  Holly Smale

  Forgotten, Irreplaceable, Remembered

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• I always wanted to be famous because I thought that if I couldn't be good [at something], I'd be famous. I was never really good. I was just something different and I got to be famous for being different.

  Cher

  Be Good, Wanted, Ifs

  "New Again: Cher". Interview with Bob Colacello, Andy Warhol, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 12, 2013.

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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 everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates' parents also speak it, and you go home and see that your community is different -there is a sense of shame attached to that. It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Growing Up, Home, School

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. January 28, 2013.

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• One of the most powerful aspects of service - being different. What is WOW? WOW! is great service! WOW! separates the EXTRAordinary from the ordinary. WOW! Separates the strong from the weak. WOW! separates the sincere from the insincere. WOW! separates the pro's from the con's. WOW! separates the yes's from the no's. WOW! is the full measure of your personal power, and the way you use it. WOW! is doing what others can't (or won't). WOW! is what you do for others in an exceptional way. WOW! is the ticket to success. Your ticket. Are you WOW?

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Strong, Powerful, Ordinary

  Jeffrey H. Gitomer (1998). “Customer Satisfaction is Worthless, Customer Loyalty is Priceless: How to Make Customers Love You, Keep Them Coming Back and Tell Everyone They Know”, Bard

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Seeking is a combination of emotions people usually think of as being different: wanting something really good, looking forward to getting something really good and curiosity. Seeking gives you the energy to go after your goals.

  Temple Grandin

  Thinking, People, Giving

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• I wanted to talk to very young kids about self-image and about being different and how that can be your strength, especially from the immigrant perspective.

  Gloria Estefan

  Kids, Self, Perspective

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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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• 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 success [of the X-Men], I think, is for two reasons. The first is that, creatively, the book was close to perfect ... but the other reason is that it was a book about being different in a culture where, for the first time in the West, being different wasn't just accepted, but was also fashionable. I don't think it's a coincidence that gay rights, black rights, the empowerment of women and political correctness all happened over those twenty years and a book about outsiders trying to be accepted was almost the poster-boy for this era in American culture.

  Mark Millar

  Book, Gay, Men

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• I don't see anyone as being different than anyone else, whether you're gay or straight or whatever - everyone's the same. That's how I was raised.

  Lea Michele

  Gay, Different, Raised

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• If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different, I'd rather be completely #$%^&^& mental.

  Angelina Jolie

  Thinking, Mental Health, Sane

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• Being different is good; embrace it.

  Simon Cowell

  Different, Embrace

  "Simon Cowell on ‘The X Factor’ auditions". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. April 7, 2011.

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• The democratic rule that all men are equal is sometimes confused with the quite opposite idea that all men are the same and that any man can be substituted for any other so that his differences make no difference. The two are not at all the same. The democratic rule that all men are equal means that men's being different cannot be made a basis for special privilege or for the invidious advantage of one man over another; equality, under the democratic rule, is the freedom and opportunity of each individual to be fully and completely his different self. Democracy means the right to be different.

  Horace Kallen

  Confused, Mean, Men

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• Sonically, musicians always go above and beyond in our efforts to disrupt radio. It's always about being different. Our radio is never conventional anyway.

  Pusha T

  Effort, Musician, Radio

  Source: theneptunes.org

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• I was different, I was always different. Why didn't anybody notice me?

  John Lennon

  Different, Notice Me

  John Lennon, Jann Wenner (2000). “Lennon Remembers”, p.137, Verso

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• I think there are two sides of the coin. On one hand, it can be challenging to access different parts of yourself, and you kind of have to put yourself back into reality when you're done with the job. But I think it's also 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. I think that's something that I've been learning more recently.

  Amandla Stenberg

  Reality, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My own view is that friendship is essential to our becoming who we are. It provides a context within which we can, more or less safely, try different ways of being, different approaches to life, and our friends, to whom we open ourselves and by whom we are willing to be influenced and directed, play a central role in what becomes of us.

  Alexander Nehamas

  Trying, Different

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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