“I can't explain why I shine and no one else shines. I think everybody shines in different things.”
Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor
1990s, Interview on the set of Gang Related (1996)
“Why can't I be different and original, like everybody else?”
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“Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else — and failing.”
Raymond Radiguet (1903–1923) French writer
L'originalité consiste à essayer de faire comme tout le monde sans y parvenir. <br class="br">As quoted by Jean Cocteau in his acceptance speech http://books.google.com/books?id=QXtJAAAAMAAJ&q=%22L'originalit%C3%A9+consiste+%C3%A0+essayer+de+faire+comme+tout+le+monde+sans+y+parvenir%22&pg=PA18#v=onepage to the Académie Française (20 October 1955)
“Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else — and failing.”
Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker
Raymond Radiguet, who was quoted by Cocteau in his acceptance speech to the Académie Française (October 1955)
Misattributed
“Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?”
James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
“Haters are confused admirers who can’t understand why everybody else likes you”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Variant: Haters are confused admirers who want to be like you.
“I swear to the Lord
I still can't see
Why Democracy means
Everybody but me.”
Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist
"The Black Man Speaks," from Jim Crow's Last Stand (1943)
“Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
Lewis Black (1948) American stand-up comedian, author, playwright, social critic and actor
Black on Broadway (2004)