Top 100 Quotes About To Be Different
#1. The change we are looking for is always a change within ourselves. And the change will come. I've noticed that as long as I'm willing to be different, something or someone arrives to show me how.
Marianne Williamson
#2. The trials of our lives make us strong, determined to succeed, to be different, both in body and in spirit.
J.C. Reed
#3. To be irreplaceable you have to be different.
Coco Chanel
#4. When do you quit wishing for things to be different? Months? Years? Decades? You think that if a sufficient amount of time goes by, it should be enough to help you stop caring anymore. But it doesn't. Ever.
T. Torrest
#5. Science fiction is a unique literature. Science fiction is the first literature that says, 'Tomorrow is going to be different than yesterday, it's going to be a lot different.'
David Gerrold
#6. I thought it was going to be different;
It turned out to be(,) just the same.
Edward Gorey
#7. And what had he wanted? He'd never sat down to think about it. But mostly, he wanted yesterday to be different from today.
Terry Pratchett
#8. I just always considered myself to be different and able to explore whatever I wanted.
Chad Hugo
#9. All human beings are different and should take their right to be different to its ultimate consequences
Paulo Coelho
#10. I know what it's like to be different. I'm a Native American in a white world.
Tamara Hoffa
#11. In a world where the larger majority of society is careless, it's the small percentage of people who make the choice to be different and prioritize relationships that stand out.
Farshad Asl
#12. Yearn for the opposite, to buck the trend, to be different.
Fennel Hudson
#13. Just help him know it's okay to be different. That's what I wish my mom and dad did for me. They didn't have to change, but I wanted to know it was okay for me to change. Women like your mom never had anyone in their corners, but Felix has you.....
Bijou Hunter
#14. When we choose to be different, we have to expect a little attention.
Nancy Grossman
#15. Why am I the way I am? Well, I used to be different.
Tom Sizemore
#16. Reality may not be what you want it to be, but it is the reality you now must face. You can deny this reality and try to wish it away, or you can accept it and not waste any energy on wanting it to be different.
David W. Earle
#17. There's nothing more addictive or incredible in life than reinventing yourself and allow yourself to be different every day.
Thalia
#18. Your internal dialogue has got to be different from what you say. And, you know, in film, hopefully that registers and speaks volumes. It's always the unspoken word and what's happening behind someone's eyes that makes it so rich.
Viola Davis
#19. Wanting something to be different will not make it so.
Scott Frost
#20. Let's stop "tolerating" or "accepting" difference, as if we're so much better for not being different. Instead, let's celebrate difference, because in this world it takes a lot of guts to be different and to act differently.
Kate Bornstein
#21. From the beginning, there was so much pressure in the early San Francisco punk scene for everyone to be different than everyone else, to flaunt your intelligence and insights instead of every band sounding alike, like what plagues punk music in particular today.
Jello Biafra
#22. Freedom means nothing unless it means the freedom to be different
Marty Rubin
#23. I mean, how would anyone learn anything if they weren't curious? How would scientists make discoveries?
We all have the right to be different, don't we?
Annette Curtis Klause
#24. There are bands that I got into when I was 15, when I was mad at my dad and just wanted to be different. I don't think I'd give those bands half a chance now. But I hold some kind of nostalgia for them that I won't let go. Bands like Minor Threat and Black Flag.
Pete Wentz
#25. I didn't want to be different.
I wanted to be able to laugh
But I'm sister to an Emperor who's worshiped as a god. People fear me. I never wanted to be feared.
I don't want to be part of history, I just want to be loved ... and to love.
Frank Herbert
#26. I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl.
Francine Pascal
#27. Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.
Margaret Mahy
#28. Kids want acceptance from their peers, but in two different, opposing ways: They want to be like everyone else and they want to be different from everyone else. So the question is: How do you reconcile these opposing longings?
E.L. Konigsburg
#29. When a lot of musicians change styles, their songwriting suffers because they want to be different.
Noel Gallagher
#30. The wanting to be different in order to be perceived as better, yet wishing I didn't have to try so hard.
Andie Mitchell
#31. Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.
Eric Hoffer
#32. I would not ask for things to be different, because it is not in my power to know if that would be better or worse than what I have today. I am not prepared to take that gamble.
Barbara "Cutie" Cooper
#33. To truly love ourselves, we must challenge our beliefs that we need to be different or better.
Sharon Salzberg
#34. My real name is Joe Kennedy, but if you live in Massachusetts, you can't sign 'Joe Kennedy.' So, back in 1957, I stuck the X on my name to be different from those people in Hyannis Port.
X.J. Kennedy
#35. To become a person does not necessarily mean to be well adjusted, well adapted, approved of by others. It means to become who you are. We are meant to become more eccentric, more peculiar, more odd. We are not meant just to fit in. We are here to be different. We are here to be the individual.
James Hollis
#36. It seems unfortunate that strong people are usually so disagreeable and overbearing that no one cares for them. In fact, to be different from your fellow creatures is always a misfortune.
L. Frank Baum
#37. To be different is not necessarily to be ugly; to have a different idea is not necessarily to be wrong. The worst possible thing is for all of us to begin to look and talk and act and think alike.
Gene Roddenberry
#38. More often than not, this backfires, and our attempts to be different result in uniformity, our attempts to be plain draw attention to ourselves, our attempts to temper sexuality inadvertently exploit it, and our attempts to avoid offense accidentally create it.
Rachel Held Evans
#39. Now the whole point about machines is they are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don't want it to be different every time you call it up. You want it to stay the same.
Rupert Sheldrake
#40. She'd never stopped for a moment wanting me to be different but her wishes were never going to come true.
Agatha Christie
#41. Your true potential will speak as loud as your willingness to listen will allow it. If you simply breathe for the next 365 days, your life is going to be different, but is that the "different" you want to create in your life? You have to make your possibilities welcome in your life.
Mary Morrissey
#42. I'm interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.
Agnes Varda
#43. O Father, console them and please spare our country from that terrible disaster, not because we are any better but only out of grace. And if it has to be different, then teach me to pray: "Your will be done." O please protect him whom my soul lives! -From the journal of Diet Eman
Diet Eman
#44. I've made more mistakes than anyone I know. Sometimes I learned something, and sometimes I just find myself doing it again. It makes me mad when I wasn't smart enough to learn the first time. You just think it's going to be different the next time, and it's not, as it turns out.
Jim Pattison
#45. It is good to be different, because difference is great; that's what this music is based on. But lose that energy between the audience and the players, and you have nothing.
Andrew Hill
#46. It was a miracle to live as birds do, except for one thing: anyone seen in flight would surely be captured, perhaps even shot down like a crow flying above a cornfield. It's always dangerous to be different, to appear as a monster in most people's eyes, even from a distance.
Alice Hoffman
#47. Have you ever noticed' I said 'how everyone says they want to be different, but as soon as they meet someone who really is different, they ostracize them?
Charles De Lint
#48. This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them.
Ayn Rand
#50. You're not the same. You're not supposed to be the same. You're supposed to be different. This isn't something you will ever forget.
Daisy Whitney
#51. By judging differently and by recognizing their female experiences and bringing them to bear on the Supreme Court's decision, Ginsburg and O'Connor both made it legitimate for people to be different.
Linda Hirshman
#53. Tolerance says I am just going to stomach your right to be different. That if you disappear from the face of the earth, I am no better or worse off. But love - love knows that every American has worth and value, no matter what their background, race, religion, or sexual orientation.
Cory Booker
#54. And this is the world you saved. Did you expect it to be different, suddenly? Did you expect it to be grateful?
Kate Milford
#55. You're really looking for the truth of what the piece is about. And that's going to be different for different people.
Joshua Bell
#56. While everybody is trying to be different, everybody becomes, obviously, the same, so it's finding what makes you special and then kind of sharing it with the world; it's what makes you a superstar.
Ryan Guzman
#57. The movie on the screen is always going to be different from the movie in your head. How it makes you feel is what I'm after, what I'm chasing, and what I'm trying to construct.
David Ayer
#58. No one ever told me that it might be different. That it would be okay to be different.
Kelly Quindlen
#59. This year, everything is going to be different. No one in Fischer Hall is going to die this year. Not even accidentally."
"How are you going to manage that?" Coop asks, gnawing on a Chinese sparerib. "Bubble wrap all your residents?
Meg Cabot
#60. People want to be in their own fashion tribes, so they want to wear the same clothes to be connected to everyone else in that tribe. But they want to be different from other tribes.
Christian Lacroix
#61. Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.
Arthur Freed
#62. Or about how when you're a child, to stop you from following the crowd you're assaulted with the line "If everyone jumped off a bridge, would you?" but when you're an adult and to be different is suddenly a crime, people seem to be saying, "Hey. Everyone else is jumping off a bridge. Why aren't you?
Steve Toltz
#63. When I think about the future, I'm not necessarily arguing it's going to be better or worse. I'm just saying it's going to be different.
Chuck Klosterman
#64. And her voice, it's exactly the same. I don't know why I'd expect it to be different except that everything's different now.
Gayle Forman
#65. I've been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.
Elie Wiesel
#66. When you realize your potential to feel good, you will ask no one to be different in order for you to feel good.
Rhonda Byrne
#67. It's not about having a specific set time; both personal and professional lives are 24/7. It's simply, more about making the right allocation to each one and recognizing that it's going to be different every single day
Ellen J. Kullman
#68. I'm just trying to illustrate that it's okay to be different - not that it's good, not that it's bad, but that it's all right. I'm trying to tell kids to have a good time and to encourage them to be creative and to question things,
Paul Reubens
#69. I've got a variety of different sources of news that I follow and every day there's going to be different headlines, different stories spun different ways and different sources that they're going to cite as their facts.
Jon Foreman
#70. He changed me. He helped me see who I really was and realize that I didn't like that person. He made me want to be different. He made me want to be better to myself and everyone else.
Ashley Uzzell
#71. He'd fallen in love with Quinn slowly, quietly. With Dima, it was like a baseball bat upside the head, these feelings. They completely swamped him, made him want different things, made him want to be different.
Avril Ashton
#72. I've worked with many directors, good ones and bad ones. So if I have a chance to work the good ones, I better put myself in their hands, and trust them, because that's my big opportunity to be different, and to be better than usual.
Thomas Kretschmann
#73. My childhood definitely revolved around my relationship with my brother. I wanted to be different. I wanted to find my way of being as intriguing and interesting as he was.
Martha Wainwright
#74. You don't have to be disabled to be different, because everybody's different.
Daniel Tammet
#75. Just like his daddy, but his daddy wants Red to be different from him. Isn't that always how it is?
Anne Tyler
#76. It definitely can be really hard being away from friends and family for so long. People expect you to be different when you come back. But I love it, I love coming home. I really want to start coming back here more often ? its so fun.
Hayley Williams
#77. A human being too, is many things. Whatever makes up the air,the earth, the herbs, the stones is also part of our bodies. We must learn to be different, to feel and taste the manifold things that are us.
Lame Deer
#79. I didnt get arrested to show off my wild character. People say its a gimmick for all five of us to be different. Thats ridiculous.
Donnie Wahlberg
#80. I just like a good story. I want the story to be good and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.
Garret Dillahunt
#81. One of the better definitions of insanity - doing the exact same thing over and over and expecting the result to be different.
Anthony Kiedis
#82. It's very difficult to be different from the rest of the crowd the majority of the time, which by definition is what you're doing if you're a successful trader.
Bill Lipschutz
#83. Are you on our side ... and want to be different, or are you on that side and want to throw a football at my head!?
Gerard Way
#84. You are what you are, until you decide to be different.
Paula Wall
#85. There's so many other things I want to do. I don't want to do them to be different or just for a challenge, but because my heart and soul tell me to.
La India
#86. It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.
Jean Nouvel
#87. If you want reality to be different than it is, you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
Byron Katie
#88. There's a right way of doing things and a wrong way. If you've made up your mind to be different from everybody else, I don't suppose I can stop you, but I really don't think it's very considerate.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#89. The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.
Mark Millar
#90. At thirteen it was evident that Bleu and Azul were going to be different from their father. They respected him as their father, but they despised the way Marcos treated me.
Ivy Symone
#91. They chose to be different. And in doing so, they proved that through struggle, sacrifice and service, staggering personal transformation is possible.
Adam Braun
#92. I like each of my books to be different. Once I've done something I like to move on and push myself to learn new things and expand the limits of poetic form.
Campbell McGrath
#94. I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.
Kate Bosworth
#95. Everybody thinks it's going to be different for them, Janice said. The dinosaurs thought so too.
Kathryn Davis
#96. It is not easy to be different, and even less so to be unique.
Cassandra Clare
#97. People try to accept themselves in order to be different, and try to surrender themselves in order to have more self-respect in their own eyes - or
Alan W. Watts
#98. The Hispanic population in this country is not a monolith. When you're in Miami, the newscast is going to be different from the newscast in Los Angeles.
Randy Falco
#99. There are so many screenwriters with incredible stories to tell, so I hope there will be some kind of shift in the business where very few types of movies are now made by the studios. There needs to be different budgets for different audiences; not everything having to be a huge opening weekend.
Callie Khouri
#100. We all get angry and jealous sometimes, none of us is perfect, but we should not try to be different.
Jill Scott
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