Theodore Isaac Rubin Quotes

People need to hear what I have to say. There's no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn't matter what I live.

When people say, 'I don't see you enough,' well just because you don't see me don't mean I don't exist, or just 'cause you haven't heard me don't mean I haven't been making noise. But if I keep making noise, you'll pick up.

I think I've benefited from not being hugely known. It means I have to do something really effective to be noticed.

I just never wanted to be too much in the background. I always wanted to be a part of things.

As a fair skinned blonde, I disappeared into the background. I've always been a loner, so I suppose dyeing my hair red was a way to say, 'I'm here, I exist, I'm a human being and you can't just push me aside.'

Going unnoticed has never been my strong suit.

I want you to realize your voice matters.

I was able to be influential and create a mold. There was no one else who was shaped like me or looked like me.

Find your voice, shout it from the rooftops, and keep doing it until the people that are looking for you find you.

Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.

I think a lot of young people have incredible ideas and incredible insights, but sometimes they wait before they go give their life to something. What I did was just to start a little earlier.

I don't want to be someone sitting in my rocking chair at the end saying, 'Well, I passed.' My mum used to say life isn't for sissies.

If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.

Everybody wants to shine a little bit, even a wallflower.

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.

If you have a vision, do something with it.

I like to stand out and make a statement.

If you're not the brightest or if you're not great at sports, or if you're not artistic, then you've got to find a way to make your mark; otherwise you're just this tiny little insignificant dot. I didn't want to be insignificant, so I made people laugh.

I do say things that I think will shock people. But I don't do things to shock people. I'm not trying to be the next Tupac, but I don't know how long I'm going to be on this planet. So while I'm here, I might as well make the most of it.

If we didn't get the record, we didn't exist.

I went for an outrageous form of expressing myself. It seemed to be a way that I could make my name and show that I was somebody.

The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.