Ana Patricia Botin Quotes

I think everybody has their own unique style.

I have a trend of my own.

I want everyone to express themselves in a unique way.

The music I make, I'm different.

You should definitely stay true to your own style.

The world would be a boring place if we all looked the same.

I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.

I always say that I don't like it when people follow trends too much, just because it is on the runway. I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

The best thing an actor can bring to a role is himself - that's no secret.

I think every person is so unique. I think every woman is so unique, every man is so unique, every artist is so unique.

When you have your own identity as a singer, you don't have competition.

Fashion, to me, is being individualistic.

Everyone has their own style. It's unique; no one person's style is wrong.

Born Originals, how comes it to pass that we die Copies?

I'm going forward, so my clothing line is kind of the physicalization of that. The idea of diversity, of uniqueness, of individuality - that's what this is all about.

Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.

I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us.

Style means you have a real curiosity about yourself and then you express it. Having style is not copying somebody else.

I'm a smart enough person to know that I don't want everyone to be cookie-cutter versions of the nine guys who wear Converse sneakers.

The essence of a sound style is that it cannot be reduced to rules-that it is a living and breathing thing with something of the devilish in it-that it fits its proprietor tightly yet ever so loosely, as his skin fits him. It is, in fact, quite as seriously an integral part of him as that skin is. . . . In brief, a style is always the outward and visible symbol of a man, and cannot be anything else.

Whatever you do with your life-whatever you end up achieving or not achieving-the great gift you have in you to give to the world is the gift of who you alone are; your way of seeing things, and saying things, and feeling about things, that is like nobody else’s. If so much as a single one of you were missing, there would be an empty place at the great feast of life that nobody else in all creation could fill.

If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.

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

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.