I am different. Let this not upset you
How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.
I'm interested in how identity is transient. How do we know who we really are, when different situations and environments dictate how we behave? I'm interested in the role we all play. We spend our whole lives becoming ourselves when we are born as no one else.
I always imagined I would have a life very different from the one that was imagined for me, but I understood from a very early time that I would have to revolt in order to make that life. Now I am convinced that in any creativity there exists this element of revolt.
I, uh, don't think I'm, y'know, so different than your average, y'know, average.
The sun looks different from when it rises to when it sets.
I like films that continue to spin your head in all sorts of different directions after you've seen them.
Everyone you see is you in a different time & space.
Daring to wear something different takes effort.
I don't think I'm better than other people, I think I'm different from other people, because I do different things.
If you do everything that everyone else does in business, you're going to lose. The only way to really be ahead, is to 'be different'.
One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.
I like to do something different that people don't expect. That's what I've always been about, in everything I do.
If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can't get a new thumb. The failure modes are very different.
Normality is to be different. Every person is a different person. And one day you need to be aware of your difference. Aware that you are not the same as the others. That is to be normal.
Brain surgery is a terrible profession. If I did not feel it will become different in my lifetime, I should hate it.
It is dangerous and unbelievably fast and entirely different from the kind of track I am used to racing on
I want people to get out of that nasty habit of needing a label. Every genre for each song is different.
It's different as a coach because you feel responsible for a lot of people. Even though you don't take a shot, you don't get a rebound, you feel like you just want people to succeed and you want to help them any way you can.
Lamps are different, but light is the same.
Every author has different ways of writing and what works for one author does not necessarily work for another.
Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I would realize that I could endure this life because of these musicales going on in my head.
Utopias now appear much more realizable than one used to think. We are now faced with a different new worry: How to prevent their realization.
To this day, no one has come up with a set of rules for originality. There aren't any.
