Tom Robbins Quotes

it goes something like 'There are a lot of ways to be yourself.

I never wanted to be like anyone growing up. It's always been about the enjoyment, and I've just never wanted to imitate anyone.

I've always wanted to be my own person. Even when I was 'Noah who rode horses,' I wanted to be Noah Cyrus, not anyone else or a family member.

I do so hate to be forced to be anything than other than what I am.

You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.

Harmelody allows everybody to be an individual who does not have to imitate anybody else.

Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.

The hero is suffered to be himself.

It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.

Just be yourself, there is no one better.

I have the belief that we are all created to be unique. We are supposed to be different and do those things that made us who we are.

Be yourself cause everyone else is already taken.

The reality is, I like imperfection. You take away from the world when you're not yourself. Whatever is unique and special about you was designed by God. And when you try to be someone else, we don't get you. Who knows what you would have contributed to the world had you just been yourself, if you had just celebrated who you are and just walked boldly?

Be yourself. No one else can.

I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.

I love my father, but I have worked to develop a separate and distinct identity in different projects I have worked on.

No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.

What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.

I love to reinvent myself, and that's because I am a very free person. I do what I feel, and I love who I am.

I want to continue to be me and share with people.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

I don't want to be somebody else.

I am my own person.

I feel like I want to keep moving toward idiosyncracy. Personal, personal, personal.

We're all going to keep telling love stories, we're all going to tell hero stories. It's all a question of what your own thumbprint, your own DNA, is, and what it brings to the table that makes it unique.