Emo Philips Quotes

But the English are different, and they don't know how to be other than different.

In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.

I've always been the girl the kids in school would be like, 'What is she wearing?' Then eventually some trends would stick.

Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness.

Traditionally, the ideology of the United States nationhood perpetuated the myth that immigrants would shed their particularistic ethnic identities and loyalties. Eventually these “strangers” would be assimilated into a homogeneous body politic that was based on the equality of individual rights.

I like that I can stand out from the crowd.

People don't want to be diverse, or they're scared to be diverse. People just dress a certain way to fit in but sometimes being outside of the box is the cool thing to do.

I don't think you need to sound like from where you're from. But I think there is something magical and powerful about encompassing something fully and singularly.

It's the culture, not the blood. If you can go anywhere in the world and adopt these babies and put them into households that were already assimilated in America, those babies will grow up as American as any other baby with as much patriotism and love of country as any other baby. It's not about race. It's never been about race. In fact the struggles across this planet, we describe them as race, they're not race. They're culture based. It's a clash of culture, not the race. Sometimes that race is used as an identifier.

I wanted to talk to very young kids about self-image and about being different and how that can be your strength, especially from the immigrant perspective.

But Americans are different from everyone else in the world - except the Canadians, and Americans are more different from the Canadians than they often think.

When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.

Nationality is not a universal human principle but an historical, local fact...Every nation, even a small one, has its own character, its own particular way of life and manner of speaking, feeling, thinking, and behaving. These distinctive features are the essence of nationality, the product of a nation's entire history and conditions of existence. Every nation, like every individual, is of necessity what it is, and has an unquestionable right to be itself. So-called national rights consist precisely of this.

I don't mind not being cool.

I know thousands of German's who are totally different from me, so we're not alike, we're not the same.

I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture.

I'm unique - a cosmopolitan mix.

I've often been told that I'm a bit strange. I hear that pretty regularly, but it is not how I see myself.

Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.

I'm used to always being different, in any context. People always want to know how I grew up, so I just say I grew up Muslim. That's the truth. Two Muslim girls can write me two extremely different letters - and they do. Some are very supportive, and some question what I do.

These days it's cool to be ethnic and to be different, but when I was a kid, it was not cool - at all. My friends would come over and my mom would make crepes with eggs, stuffed with mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and spinach. And they'd be like, 'What is this?'

I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

It didn't matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My name was different. I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.

All the things that are part of your heritage make you British - that makes this country what it is. It's part of your history. And here, unlike America, it's still living history.