Lynn Barber Quotes

The best subjects are always people, who never fail to amaze me by their unpredictability.

It's not just that everyone has a story. It's that everyone has a thousand stories. Everyone is infinite.

Every human being is special because they all have identities.

Each person in the world is different and has their own beautiful sound in the symphony of life.

There are so many different fifteens. And eighteens. And forty-twos, for that matter. Mature fifteens and young fifteens and wise fifteens and lost fifteens. And angry fifteens.

Difference is of the essence of humanity.

The thing I like the best, especially being a parent of so many kids, Is that they're all so different. You love them all equally, but they're all so different from each other and that's the cool thing, to see their personalities start to develop and see how unique and different they all are and to be able to love them in their own unique ways. It's really, really, really special.

I am just myself, and who I am is a lot.

The personality is defined by its inconsistencies, not its consistencies. It's what makes us unique and who we are.

There are billions of people in the world, and every one of them is special. No one else in the world is like you.

Everybody's born to be different, that's the one thing that makes us the same.

Every girl has her own character, every boy his own mind.

One of the reasons that the Ramones were so unique and original was that they were four original, unique people.

There is no normal. I've never met a normal person. The concept is flawed. It implies that there is only one way people are supposed to be, and that can't possible be true. Human experience is far too varied.

The only thing that made me, or any of us, special was that no one in the whole of history would ever see the universe exactly the same way any other of us saw it.

Fun has no limits. It is like the human race and face; there is a family likeness among all the species, but they all differ.

All men [are] of one metal, but not in one mold.

It is possible to analyze the biological and social influences that make each human being unique, unprecedented, and unrepeatable, but this analysis does not explain how and why each feels different from all other human beings.

A life that is, like any other, unlike any other.

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

Everyone is different: different shapes, sizes, colors, beliefs, personalities, and you have to celebrate those differences.

The character is a piece of fiction. You are yourself, however, and that makes you interesting, because you're alive and you're a human being.

People are too complicated to have simple labels.

That the speech of self-disclosure should be translatable seems to me very odd, but I am convinced that it is. The conclusion that I draw is that the only quality which all human being without exception possess is uniqueness: any characteristic, on the other hand, which one individual can be recognized as having in common with another, like red hair or the English language, implies the existence of other individual qualities which this classification excludes.

There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.