Neal Shusterman Quotes

I see the world become so uniform. Everybody has to be the same. I like people who are different.

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

The curse of the human race is not that we are so different from each other, but that we are so alike.

Today, we talk a lot about equality, but I think what most people mean by it is sameness - that everybody is the same - and they are afraid if they are not the same, they are not equal.

I think a lot of snowflakes are alike...and I think a lot of people are alike too.

I think the terrifying thing is you see all these people who go to the same cosmetic surgeon, and they end up, after a while, looking like everyone.

I think if everyone looked the same, it would be a bit boring.

I look like everyone.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

I don't like to be different; I would like to be the same.

If everything is the same, nothing is special.

Nobody is the same. If we were all the same it would be bloody boring.

So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'

What's sometimes really overwhelming in Sweden is the uniformity. People kind of disappear by all looking the same and wearing the same clothes. There are a lot of great individuals, but it can become a very blank and bleak picture.

I think it would be terrific if everybody was alike.

I do everything that everybody else does.

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else

Equal doesn't mean identical.

I am just like everyone else.

You can look different but have the same values. That's not diversity; it's conformity.

I just understand that I'm supposed to be one of those people that disrupts the flavor a little bit instead of being part of the same sound as everyone else.

Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades, all equal, all alike, hiding the world from each other. Anguished, she thought, "I don't want to be just another blade of grass."

People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.

Like snowflakes,' Franny said,'none of them the same and yet each one, from where we stand, exactly like the one before

People have only one way to be.