Chris Burke Quotes

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

One of the things I worked very hard on all my life was to be like everyone else. I tried very hard to fit in.

We're all taught to blend in and behave.

It's so horrible to realize you're just the same as everyone else, isn't it?

I look like everyone.

I try to be as normal as I can.

Well, sometimes when you say you want to be like everybody else, you're really saying that you're not.

Why can't I be different and unusual... like everyone else?

I am just like everyone else.

It's perfect to be the same as everyone else.

People come to New York to be different, but I go to Starbucks to be the same.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

I didn't want to wear a checked shirt and grow a mustache - that's what you had to do, and everyone did.

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

I do everything that everybody else does.

The nail that sticks out gets knocked down.

Being part of a crowd and not standing out is way more frightening than being the person that stands out.

They think they're normal, because they all do the same thing. Well, I'm going to pretend that I have drunk from the same well as them.

Be one of the crowd? It went against everything a wizard stood for, and a wizard would not stand for anything if he could sit down for it, but even sitting down, you had to stand out.

I wanted to be, you know, just no different than anybody else.

I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

If everything is the same, nothing is special.

I never felt any different from anyone else though.

I just want to be like other people that are normal.

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