#being different

I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. Let's just say I got a lot of, er, flak for being different. ↗

— Barry Watson

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The panic of the Depression loosened my inhibitions against being different. I could be myself. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

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Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. ↗

— Charles Mingus

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I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful. ↗

— Shania Twain

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I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world. ↗

— Elijah Wood

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I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man, all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

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Unfortunately, in some parts of the country, some kids are taught at an early age that being different is somehow bad or wrong or worthy of ridicule. ↗

— Matt Bomer

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