Quotes about Individuality

Don't believe that being Jewish or Aryan or African has any bearing on what one can become. Greatness does not care if one is a girl or a boy. If, in fact, it is what's inside us that makes all the difference, then the difference is made when we choose what goes inside.

you will never please everyone, nor should pleasing everyone be your goal. For example, to seek the approval of someone who is lazy or jealous is to cast your pearls before swine. You will find that God rarely uses a person whose main concern is what others are thinking.

If you do not choose, you'll end up like everyone else in the world who has never chosen. The people who do not actively choose a road to travel always default to the road everyone else is already on.

Everybody---every single body---makes a difference! But there is a choice that determines what kinda difference you will make. Most folks don't see how important they are...how much they matter to all of us. So they never choose to do somethin' special wif their lives. And not makin' a choice? That is a choice...a lost one.

Do you know why people are prone to make such foolish moral decisions? Because something always whispers to us that our situations are unique: Nobody has ever felt this way before.

If you spend your days doing what you love, it is impossible to fail. So I go about my days trying to bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. And then everyone gets furious about it. And then I sit back and say, 'I did that!'

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don't care who people are as long as they're themselves, whatever that is.

I've become really good at turning down the boring, pretty girl roles, the trophy wife, supermodel, beautiful girlfriend roles. I mean, playing somebody who's perfect holds no allure for me, whatsoever. It's just boring.

I've never been one for color theory or color wheels or undertone rules or anything like that. I don't know if my red lipstick 'should' be more blue or more orange.

Being myself is what got me to where I am.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

Since I don't look like every other girl, it takes a while to be okay with that. To be different. But different is good.