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Self Expression Quotes

"I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove."
Vincent Van Gogh
"Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy —the joy of being Salvador Dalí— and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is this Salvador Dalí going to accomplish today?"
Salvador Dali
"I am not strange. I am just not normal."
Salvador Dali
"I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labelled."
Johnny Depp
"We all know that distinctiveness – originality – is valuable. We are all taught to “be yourself. What I’m really asking you to do is to embrace and be realistic about how much energy it takes to maintain that distinctiveness. The world wants you to be typi"
Jeff Bezos
"You have to pay a price for your distinctiveness, and it’s worth it. The fairy tale version of ‘be yourself’ is that all the pain stops as soon as you allow your distinctiveness to shine. That version is misleading. Being yourself is worth it, but don’t ex"
Jeff Bezos
"What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive."
Jeff Bezos