Frans Lanting Quotes

All people - African, European, American - worry about being different. But I've learned that the traits we'd rush to get rid of are the very ones that others desire. People always covet what they don't have. That's why we should look at ourselves every now and then and say, 'I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.'

Eagles fly alone, but sheep flock together.

I suppose frogs pay no attention to being frogs. They take it for granted. What interests a frog are differences among frogs. From our point of view they are more or less the same, from their point of view they are all radically different.

I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.

Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.

I didn't see how wearing prosthetics was quite so different from being born with flaming red hair in a crowd of black-haired babies, or being of a different religion from that of every other child in your area.

I never felt any different from anyone else though.

Love yourself, whatever makes you different, and use it to make you stand out. Mine is my voice and the fact that I'm gay: well, the fact that I'm flamboyantly gay.

My dad's family is part British and Austrian, and my mother's family is from Goa, which is in the south of India. I looked different from everyone else, which now is such a blessing. It was harder at the beginning of my career.

Everybody's like everybody else, and everybody's different from everybody else.

Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.

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.

Being put in a group, I hate that. I don't think anyone likes it. Everyone just wants to be their own person.

I dyed my hair about 42 different colours, and kids can be pretty judgmental about people who are different. But instead of breaking down and conforming, I stood firm. That is also probably why I was unhappy.

People always ask 'Why is Bubba different?' They're just trying to figure it out.

The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.

Since I don't look like every other girl, it takes a while to be okay with that. To be different. But different is good.

Equal doesn't mean identical.

The things that make me different are the things that make me.

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

Every single person in this world is a minority in one way or another. It just depends on how you slice the pie.

I wanted to blend in 'cause I knew I was different.

Everyone has their own individuality and character.

Everything about me was different.

There are too many different kinds of people in this world. Not just drags or gays, everybody is different from each other. We should proudly own our individuality.