Oliver Sacks Quotes

Having Down syndrome is like being born normal. I am just like you and you are just like me. We are all born in different ways, that is the way I can describe it. I have a normal life.

I just want to give my fans a place to go where they can be free and nobody will judge them, because life is more interesting when you're looking at it from the outside. I don't think you need to be on the outside looking in; I think you should enjoy the outside.

People who try to be something they are not, the most attractive thing to me are people who are 100% authentically them. And I appreciate and actually always look for people that are different than me in friendships, because that helps me grow.

A lot of people come up to me all the time and say thank you for helping me be who I am. So my thing wasn't just about sexuality. It was about anyone who felt different; anyone who felt out of place. Being gay was one part of it.

I don't know what it's like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy. I don't speak for such huge and diverse groups. What I've tried to do, what I've been fortunate to do, is to live my live and create my life as I've wanted to create it.

It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a monochromatic or monocultural story unless you're doing something extremely small - a locked room-style story.

I find people interesting. People trying hard are interesting. People with a passion are interesting - whether it's old cars or taxidermy or knitting.

I want young people to know that they can belong - whatever your culture, your religion, your sexuality - that you can live life how you want to live it and feel comfortable how you are.

I think there is a lot of space for people to love who they love, and a lot of space for actors to carve a niche for themselves.

I love the mixture that's in me. It makes me me. And that's why it's such a shame that people waste energy in denying who they are.

Honestly, I just have to do what's right for me, and what I would tell people is what I believe, which is that tolerance is very important.

You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.

If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution.

Who cares who comes out of the closet or not, so long as you're happy?

Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.

I think it's incredibly important for kids to be able to express who they are and feel like they can be themselves without being persecuted for it or bullied for it.

Autism doesn't have to define a person. Artists with autism are like anyone else: They define themselves through hard work and individuality.

I'm a human being, I'm not a machine. I'm 72. I'm dyslexic.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can't knock it.

Every one of us is different in some way but for those of us who are more 'different,' we have to put more effort into convincing the less different that we can do the same thing as they can... just differently.

Every one of us is different in some way, but for those of us who are more different, we have to put more effort into convincing the less different that we can do the same thing they can, just differently.

If I was 14 and knew some gay people, I wouldn't nearly have had the struggle I had. Our world is definitely changing.

I think that anybody coming out and saying, 'This is who I am, and let me show it to you...' is good for the world.

Every person with a disability is an individual.

Drag allows people to celebrate their individuality, together.