Dave Thomas Quotes

When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.

I think it's cool to be different. That's what cool is.

Be different; be unique; be yourself.

I don't feel pressure to act like other people or rap like other people, because I just can't.

I think when you're different you stand out more and I like when people stand out.

I want to be the biggest thing that's out because I'm different from everybody. I don't sound like nobody.

I'm not just cookie-cutter. You always see something different.

You have to be unique.

Be different - without concern for what others think.

When you're young, and even at times when you're older, it's hard to fathom this: What needs to be nurtured is the stuff that's different, that sets you apart from the pack, rather than the stuff that helps you blend in.

I'd rather sink trying to be different, than stay afloat like everyone else.

Just do something that makes you stand out. Even if not everyone likes it, just do it.

I think that my father would find it so confusing that people want to imitate him. Not because he didn't have confidence in who he was, but because he never imitated anybody. He was his own person.

Fashion faux pas should be celebrated. I enjoy them because it means we're not all clones.

I love Lady Gaga. She's not afraid to take risks and be herself.

Different is better. I get more jobs being different.

The most daring thing is to be yourself and to do exactly what you want to do at that point in time and not to be worried with what other people are doing or what's popular.

I would much rather be a bad Luise Rainer than a second someone else.

I think people should express themselves more and not just buy what's in. While it can be very beautiful, and it may suit you perfectly, I'm sure it doesn't suit everyone in the same way. I like people who express themselves and are more individualistic.

When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else.

Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.

I'm not always the best at picking out what goes together. I always want to be presentable, but more than that, I want to be different. I've never just wanted to follow the crowd. I think that goes back to when I was a boy. If everyone was doing one thing, I'd do something different.

Conforming is not cool.

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.

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.