Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dudley Warner

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

Alain Ducasse

The relentless pursuit of being different is very French.

Edward Young

We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies?

Elijah Wood

So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others.

Albert Einstein

The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.

Simon Cowell

Being different is good; embrace it.

John Webster

When we prohibit others from being different, we end up forfeiting our own right to Liberty....

Philip Larkin

Originality is being different from oneself, not others.

Nicolas Sarkozy

I am showing solidarity while being different. Or if you prefer, I am being different while being in solidarity.

Alan Watts

We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

Alan Parker

I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.

Chris Burke

I don't like to be different; I would like to be the same.

Eddie Murphy

I'm in a whole different part of show business. I'm not even part of Shakespeare in Love.

Agnes Varda

I cannot say something different to one person and then another.

Charles de Lint

When you're invisible, no one can see that you're different.

Charlie Munger

Our success has come from the lack of oversight we've provided, and our success will continue to be from a lack of oversight. But if you're going to provide minimal oversight, you have to buy carefully. It's a different model from GE's. GE's works - it's just very different from ours.

Bill McKibben

What makes us different? We're the creature that can decide not to do something that we are capable of doing.

Bill Wyman

I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project.

Daniel Webster

What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.

Steve Martin

I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct.

Robert Bresson

The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.

Michael Eisner

Sometimes you have to be worn out and burnt out to become authentic and original.

John Steinbeck

Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.

Theodore Roosevelt

It is always better to be an original than an imitation.

Paulo Freire

The multitude is always in the wrong.

Mason Cooley

Eccentricity is originality that leads nowhere.

Ezra Pound

Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.