Top 1200 Being Different Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Growing up, I just wanted to be like everyone else. I didn't value or understand the beauty in being different at the time in my life.

I hate being pigeon-holed into anything. To me, the best thing is when the next job comes and is completely different to the one that I just had.

The problems that you see startups tackling are dramatically different in different cities. Silicon Valley is unlikely to produce the same set of companies as New York or Cleveland because the region has a different set of strengths and defining institutions.

I am so grateful that I accepted the offer to do 'CSI,' but it was like being shot out of a cannon, and it was so different from anything that I have ever done.

I have different shoes for different types of climbing, six or seven different shoes that I alternate.

And I think that’s a lot of the reason why when you start to fragment your audience, you start to think about what you’re looking for, you’ll go to different spaces, and it parallels what we do as adults. You go to different bars when you’re in the mood for different things. You see different people when you want to go listen to music or when you just want to have a quiet drink with a couple of friends.

Having different people come together and be on a team and win a world championship is literally, I think, the definition of being American.

We could do something set in the 21st century, where I travel around to lots of different places and we talk to different ethnicities and lots of different racial and religious minorities, so it's not just the black-and-white America; it hasn't been that since the '90s.

Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive way of being different.

People May Hate You For Being Different and Not Living By Society's Standards,but Deep Down,They Wish They Had The Courage To Do The Same.

There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.

We tend to think human knowledge as progressive; because we know more and more, our parents and grandparents are back numbers. But a contrary theory is possible - that we simply recognize different things at different times and in different ways.

Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.

I've always liked to go down a different path. Being a woman of color, I never followed a cookie cutter way.

Being an actor opened doors for me to explore my emotions as different people and characters, and expand my own inner soul.

People are different in different situations and people are different online than they are in real life.

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.

I have different hats; I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist and hopefully I'm an advocate. All of those plates are things I spin all the time.

I think there are so many unmaiden roles for women. I've been lucky enough to play girls with lots of different attitudes about sex. There's a couple other movies at Sundance that also show sex in a different way. That's exciting. I actually don't think women are being pigeonholed right now, and I like that. It's showing that men and women - when it comes down to it, we're animals, aren't we? I know how my next-door neighbors feel about it, and I hope they're enjoying it.

I think that you can say you love somebody like in a relationship, but I also think that to feel love for somebody else or for another human is more about a living being to a living being, a totally different thing. I don't know if people will ever totally understand what that word means until we die.

I never like to think of any character as being over. I'm always thinking of different ways of bringing them back.

Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

Making a movie with people of all different ethnicity, all different skin color and different backgrounds, meant that the movie can literally play all around the world. It's not just a blanket whitewash film like most Hollywood films tend to be.

Being sad and being depressed are two different things. Also, people going through depression don't look so, while someone sad will look sad. The most common reaction is, 'How can you be depressed? You have everything going for you. You are the supposed number one heroine and have a plush home, car, movies... What else do you want?'

You act like a normal human being and you treat them [actors around] like a buddy because you're all working together. It's no different than being Governor. You put a team together and say, "Guys, we all want to shine here. We all want to show that this administration is going to do things that other administrations have thought was impossible. Let's kick some ass together."

Anyway, solitary people interest me. There are so many different ways of being solitary.' 'I know just what you mean,' said X. 'I know exactly what you're going to say. Different kinds of solitude. Enforced solitude and voluntary solitude.' 'Quite,' said Viktoria. 'There's no need to go into it further. But when people understand one another without speaking, it can often leave them with very little to talk about, don't you think?

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.

There's so many different worlds, so many different suns. And we have just one world, but we live in different ones.

When I'm in heels - and I live in heels - I take on a different posture, a different attitude, different energy.

'Udta Punjab' is a story of four different people merged together. There are four different stories and four different perspectives.

Different managers play different systems, and you've got to be able to play in different positions.

Songwriting can get pretty heavy and personal for me and I like being able to explore different emotions that are not necessarily my own.

I pride myself in being able to straddle demographics, and if that was said as Barney Stinson, it would mean a little different thing.

There are many different artforms that are just being lost because the whole digital revolution has homogenized everything, turned it all into Walmart.

Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself.

I had an idea for a story about a young woman who was living with people who were different, not just superficially different - such as hair colour, or eye colour, or skin colour - but different in some significant way.

I come from being poor to a millionaire and I've seen the way cops treated people in my neighborhood. If you have a name, or you have a face, the treatment is different.

Being a black woman, there's so many different sides of us. We are funny, silly, romantic, professional, smart, and we have good jobs.

It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength.

You have to get over being shy, and just be comfortable with yourself, and I think that for me, if I'd stayed in a small town, I'd be a different person.

The way that you are when you're allowed to be yourself is very different from when you're, say, being interviewed by Jeremy Paxman. You're never given the breathing space.

If you have a different mindset, you will have a different outcome: if you make different choices from your peers, your life will then be different from your peers.

There are so many different factors - luck, being in good shape when it matters, the draw. For these reasons, it's hard to win a European Cup.

For us, we are all very different, our languages are very different, and our societies are very different. But if we could extract ourselves from our point of view and sort of look down at human life the way a biologist looks at other organisms, I think we could see it a different way.

We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all.

What if I had been born during a war and I lived in an occupied city, and people were being taken out and shot every day? Everything would be different - even after the war ended, my future would be very different. Look at what these poor people in Aleppo are going through. The children, the ones who survive, are going to be absolutely altered by what they live through, and you and I, luckily, have never had to deal with that.

Nobody understood what it was like to be black and Jewish... being different from everyone else just made me a lot stronger.

I pride myself in being able to straddle demographics and if that was said as Barney Stinson it would mean a little different thing.

This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths being measured.

I like to write without being stoned. I like to have a hit or two and then go punch up the writing. I just see different things and hear different things. But it's nice to be working from the base that I wrote originally and then come to it with a little buzz. I can have a little wine from time to time. I have a hit from time to time, but those are the only things I do.

I was definitely considered different growing up. I learned that being me was all right because my family celebrated those differences.

One is called a criminal for being different, and malicious for observing other people with too much clarity and penetration. But what if one began with oneself?

We launch when we're kind of in the same orbit that they are in terms of being matched up in inclination in space, and we're just in a little different altitude.

As you walk, hop, hobble, or wheel Meeting people of different kinds, Remember that being handicapped Is only a state of mind

It's hard to put your heart into things when you feel you're being pulled in so many different directions and people are taking advantage of you.

No one is perfect and everyone is different, but everyone one is beautiful in their own way and that's what makes us special.For me, it went beyond being a beauty queen. For me, it was about being the 20-year-old girl from India on international platform and a lot of people actually would assume that I wasn`t even educated in India because of the way I'd speak.

A child who can love the oddities of a fantasy book cannot possibly be xenophobic as an adult. What is a different color, a different culture, a different tongue for a child who has already mastered Elvish, respected Puddleglums, or fallen under the spell of dark-skinned Ged?

We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.

There are different facets to everyone. When you're at work, you're a different person. When you're with your friends, you're a different person.

There's things that you can learn by being in the room with people that's different than talking to them over the phone or reading a policy paper.