#individuality

Hong Kong girls have a genius sense of style. I came back to the States thinking no one here has any individuality. Or cute enough socks. ↗

— Camilla Belle

#back #came #cute #enough #genius

Life is two things. Life is morality – life is adventure. Squire and master. Adventure rules, and morality looks up the trains in the Bradshaw. Morality tells you what is right, and adventure moves you. If morality means anything it means keeping bounds, respecting implications, respecting implicit bounds. If individuality means anything it means breaking bounds – adventure. ↗

— H.G. Wells

#bounds #individuality #life #morality #wells

Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen. ↗

— Herb Ritts

#americans #civil-rights #expression #gay-rights #homosexuality

The best thing you've got going for you is individuality. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#going #got #individuality #thing #you

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#american #emphasis #individuality #like #painting

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#defects #existence #individuality #necessary

Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#individuality #self-determination #soul

The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#being #cannot #character #comrade #congenial

When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There's room for intuition. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#accepted #animal #began #behaviour #hard

The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit. ↗

— George Grosz

#cult #genius #greater #individuality #itself