Quotes about unique
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“Care and responsibility are constituent elements of love, but without respect for and knowledge of the beloved person, love deteriorates into domination and possessiveness. Respect is not fear and awe; it denotes, in accordance with the root of the word (respicere = to look at), the ability to see a person as he is, to be aware of his individuality and uniqueness. To respect a person is not possible without knowing him; care and responsibilty would be blind if they were not guided by the knowledge of the person's individuality.”

Erich Fromm (1900–1980) German social psychologist and psychoanalyst

Source: Man for Himself (1947), Ch. 3; in Ch. 2 of his later work The Art of Loving (1956) a similar statement is made :
Respect is not fear and awe; it denotes, in accordance with the root of the word (respicere = to look at), the ability to see a person as he is, to be aware of his unique individuality. Respect, thus, implies the absence of exploitation. I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me.

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“Awakening brings its own assignments, unique to each of us, chosen by each of us.”

Marilyn Ferguson (1938–2008) American writer

Source: The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Thirteen, The Whole- Earth Conspiracy, p. 417

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“The survival of the West depends on Americans reaffirming their Western identity and Westerners accepting their civilization as unique not universal and uniting to renew and preserve it against challenges from non-Western societies.”

Samuel P. Huntington (1927–2008) American political scientist

Source: The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996), Ch. 1: The New Era in World Politics, § 1 : Introduction: Flags And Cultural Identity

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“I’m interested in coaching, modeling, and teaching various writing practices and less in discovering talent. I want students to develop their own unique writing practices rather than impose my aesthetic values from the top down…”

Gregory Pardlo (1968) American writer

On his teaching process in “Gregory Pardlo: How I Write” https://www.writermag.com/writing-inspiration/author-interviews/gregory-pardlo-how-i-write/ in The Writer (2019 Jul 17)

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“For the unbroken life of the English nation over a thousand years and more is a phenomenon unique in history. ... Institutions which elsewhere are recent and artificial creations, appear in England almost as works of nature, spontaneous and unquestioned. The deepest instinct of the Englishman—how the word “instinct” keeps forcing itself in again and again!—is for continuity; he never acts more freely nor innovates more boldly than when he most is conscious of conserving or even of reacting. From this continuous life of a united people in its island home spring, as from the soil of England, all that is peculiar in the gifts and the achievements of the English nation, its laws, its literature, its freedom, its self-discipline. ... And this continuous and continuing life of England is symbolised and expressed, as by nothing else, by the English kingship. English it is, for all the leeks and thistles and shamrocks, the Stuarts and the Hanoverians, for all the titles grafted upon it here and elsewhere, “her other realms and territories”, Headships of Commonwealths, and what not. The stock that received all these grafts is English, the sap that rises through it to the extremities rises from roots in English earth, the earth of England's history.”

Enoch Powell (1912–1998) British politician

Speech to the Royal Society of St George (22 April 1961), quoted in A Nation Not Afraid. The Thinking of Enoch Powell (1965), pp. 145–146

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“[W]e understand that if the child were to give in to the overpowering character of reality and experience he would not be able to act with the kind of equanimity we need in our non-instinctive world. So one of the first things a child has to do is to learn to “abandon ecstasy,” to do without awe, to leave fear and trembling behind. Only then can he act with a certain oblivious self-confidence, when he has naturalized his world. We say “naturalized” but we mean unnaturalized, falsified, with the truth obscured, the despair of the human condition hidden, a despair that the child glimpses in his night terrors and daytime phobias and neuroses. This despair he avoids by building defenses; and these defenses allow him to feel a basic sense of self-worth, of meaningfulness, of power. They allow him to feel that he controls his life and his death, that he really does live and act as a willful and free individual, that he has a unique and self-fashioned identity, that he is somebody—not just a trembling accident germinated on a hothouse planet that Carlyle for all time called a “hall of doom.””

We called one’s life style a vital lie, and now we can understand better why we said it was vital: it is a necessary and basic dishonesty about oneself and one’s whole situation. This revelation is what the Freudian revolution in thought really ends up in and is the basic reason that we still strain against Freud We don’t want to admit that we arerevelation is what the Freudian revolution in thought really ends up in and is the basic reason that we still strain against Freud. We don’t want to admit that we are fundamentally dishonest about reality, that we do not really control our own lives. We don’t want to admit that we do not stand alone, that we always rely on something that transcends us, some system of ideas and powers in which we are embedded and which support us. This power is not always obvious. It need not be overtly a god or openly a stronger person, but it can be the power of an all-absorbing activity, a passion, a dedication to a game, a way of life, that like a comfortable web keeps a person buoyed up and ignorant of himself, of the fact that he does not rest on his own center. All of us are driven to be supported in a self-forgetful way, ignorant of what energies we really draw on, of the kind of lie we have fashioned in order to live securely and serenely. Augustine was a master analyst of this, as were Kierkegaard, Scheler, and Tillich in our day. They saw that man could strut and boast all he wanted, but that he really drew his “courage to be” from a god, a string of sexual conquests, a Big Brother, a flag, the proletariat, and the fetish of money and the size of a bank balance.
Human Character as a Vital Lie
The Denial of Death (1973)

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“We are a continuous dance of unique emotions, we observe, we touch and we love to lose ourselves in the musical path of our soul.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Siamo una continua danza di emozioni uniche, ci osserviamo, ci sfioriamo e amiamo perderci nel sentiero musicale della nostra anima.
Source: prevale.net

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“The real DJ is an artist and as such creates art. Something unique, which can not be recreated.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Il vero DJ è un artista e come tale crea arte. Qualcosa di unico, che non si può ricreare.
Source: prevale.net

“We are encouraged to think of acts of police violence more or less in isolation, to consider them as unique, unrelated occurrences. We ask ourselves always, “What went wrong?””

Kristian Williams (1974) American historian

and for answers we look to the seconds, minutes, or hours before the incident. Perhaps this leads us to fault the individual officer, perhaps it leads us to excuse him. Such thinking, derived as it is from legal reasoning, does not take us far beyond the case in question. And thus, such inquiries are rarely very illuminating. The shooting of Oscar Grant, the beating of Rodney King, the arrest of Marquette Frye, the killing of Arthur McDuffie — any of these may be explained in terms of the actions and attitudes of the particular officers at the scene, the events preceding the violence (including the actions of the victims), and the circumstances in which the officers found themselves. Indeed, juries and police administrators have frequently found it possible to excuse police violence with such explanations. The unrest that followed these incidents, however, cannot be explained in such narrow terms. To understand the rioting, one must consider a whole range of related issues, including the conditions of life in the Black community, the role of the police in relation to that community, and the history and pattern of similar abuses. If we are to understand the phenomenon of police brutality, we must get beyond particular cases. We can better understand the actions of individual police officers if we understand the institution of which they are a part. That institution, in turn, can best be examined if we have an understanding of its origins, its social function, and its relation to larger systems like capitalism and white supremacy.
Rights, riots and police brutality, 2020

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“(…) All those who proclaim their own greatness and uniqueness are not gnanis.”

(…) Proclaiming oneself to be an omnipotent, omniscient and omnipotent deity is a clear sign of ignorance."
Guru/Gnani
Source: I am That, P.193.

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“I want to merge with you, until it becomes uniqueness.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Voglio fondermi con te, sino a diventare unicità.
Source: From the radio show Memories http://www.m2o.it/special/memories-reloaded/ conducted by Prevale

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“She, of a particular and unique beauty. The features of his face and her body are of a subtle transgression that blends between sweetness and sensuality. Her charm smells of woman.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) ​Lei, di una particolare ed unica bellezza. I lineamenti del suo volto e del suo corpo sono di una sottile trasgressione che si fonde tra dolcezza e sensualità. Il suo fascino profuma di donna.
Source: prevale.net

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“True love consists in sharing responsibilities, listening, sincerity, respect, sex, care, empathy, patience, planning and uniqueness.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: ​Il vero amore consiste nella condivisione delle responsabilità, dell'ascolto, della sincerità, del rispetto, del sesso, della cura, dell'empatia, della pazienza, della progettualità e dell'unicità.
Source: prevale.net

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“Inter-racial sports destroy the senses of uniqueness and value necessary to racial survival.”

David Lane (white nationalist) (1938–2007) American white supremacist, convicted felon

Revolution by Number

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Daniel Dae Kim photo

“I think any time you have an ensemble of actors, everyone’s objectives are unique and individual. So it’s hard for me to collectively say whether they were allies in this…. I do know that the way things got spun by the end changed my relationships with them.”

Daniel Dae Kim (1968) American actor

"Daniel Dae Kim Spoke Up to ‘Lost’ Creators Over Pilot’s Asian Stereotypes: ‘It Was a Land Mine’" in Indie Wire (12 April 2021) https://tvline.com/2021/04/12/daniel-dae-kim-hawaii-five-0-contract-dispute-interview/

Jet Li photo

“I think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts, that is my special key. I can use my unique martial arts in the film. But after a few years, I really want to do something different... like using martial arts to talk about peace.”

Jet Li (1963) Chinese martial artist and actor

As quoted in Jet Li Interview Transcript https://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/01/29/talkasia.li.script/ in CNN (January 29, 2003)

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“Being normal is being completely unique, because nobody's the same.”

Jonathan Van Ness (1987) American hairstylist and television personality

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Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love (2019)

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“The unprecedented circumstances we live in represent a unique opportunity for us to rethink the global role of multilateralism and strengthen the importance of orderly globalization and a rules-based international order.”

Andrej Plenković (1970) Prime Minister of Croatia

Source: "Speech at the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly" https://undocs.org/en/A/75/PV.10 (25 September 2020)

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“The best event can happen in your life is to make a person fall in love with your strengths.. and above all with your defects, which make your existence unique.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Il miglior evento che possa accadere nella tua vita è far innamorare una persona dei tuoi pregi.. e soprattutto dei tuoi difetti, che rendono unica la tua esistenza.
Source: prevale.net

“The beauty with life is that everyone has something unique they know; something you can always learn.”

Elizabeth Itotia (1992) Kenyan nuclear pharmacist (born 1992)

Source: As quoted in an article titled Kenya's First Female Radiopharmaceutical Scientist https://allafrica.com/stories/202107250142.html by Magdalene Wanja published on 25th July, 2021.

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“Our personality is like the colors of a painting, is what makes us unique”

Angelo Vulpini (2003) Venezuelan recording artist

Source: Posted on @angelovulpini, Instagram (June 7, 2019)

“Each of these Churches, including the Latin Church, has its own genius. The beauty is to learn from each other without destroying the uniqueness of each one.”

Bosco Puthur (1946) Indian bishop

Pope looks east for possible Church reforms https://www.ucanews.com/news/pope-looks-east-for-possible-church-reforms/69752 (22 November 2013)

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“I believe the most exquisite (fashion) designs should be showcased at the best locations. I constantly search for the most unique venues that will amaze the world.”

Jessica Minh Anh (1988) Vietnamese model

Jessica Minh Anh (2017) cited in: " From the Hoover Dam to Tower Bridge: Model makes the world her runway https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/jessica-minh-anh-runway-stunts/index.html" in CNN, 1 June 2017.

Fala Chen photo

“Even while filming we knew how important it was that we get this opportunity to showcase our culture and our uniqueness, but also, as human beings, our stories, our emotions, and, at the end of the day, our humanity.”

Fala Chen (1982) Hong Kong actress

"Fala Chen Is Bringing Her Excellence to Hollywood" in Town & Country https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a37223279/fala-chen-jiang-li-shang-chi-marvel-interview/ (1 September 2021)

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“I am endowed by shame's vast memory, more detailed and implacable than any other, a gift unique to shame.”

Quoted in German #MeToo, ed. Elisabeth Krimmer and Patricia Simpson (Boydell & Brewer, 2022), p. 31
A Girl's Story (2016)

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“Normality is a boring uniformity, madness a lively uniqueness.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: La normalità è una noiosa uniformità, la follia una vivace unicità.
Source: prevale.net

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“Each kiss is unique. The difference of the kiss is its taste, which you immortalize in your mind, until you taste a better one.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Ogni bacio è unico. La differenza del bacio è il suo sapore, che immortali nella tua mente, finché non ne assaggi uno migliore.
Source: prevale.net

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“Every emotion is unique, just as the sound of the consolle when it becomes a woman is fascinating.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Ogni emozione è unica, così come è affascinante il suono della consolle quando diventa donna.
Source: prevale.net

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“In art, to create something unique, one must experience the joy of a child, the exhilaration of a teenager, the insecurity of an adult, and the experience of an elderly person.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: In arte, per creare qualcosa di unico, bisogna provare la gioia di un bambino, l'euforia di un adolescente, l'insicurezza di un adulto e l'esperienza di un anziano.
Source: prevale.net

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“She has that innate sensuality that captivates the gaze and doesn't make you think of anything else, she has that smile that makes her unique in the world. It's nice to see your woman shine with light and vitality, so make sure her priority is always her happiness.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Lei ha quella sensualità innata che cattura lo sguardo e non ti fa pensare ad altro, lei ha quel sorriso che la rende unica al mondo. È bello vedere la propria donna splendere di luce e vitalità, quindi fai in modo che la sua priorità sia sempre la felicità.
Source: prevale.net

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“Merits and qualities may make us interesting, fascinating and intriguing, but it will always be the flaws that make us unique.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: I pregi e le qualità possono renderci interessanti, affascinanti e intriganti, ma saranno sempre i difetti a renderci unici.
Source: prevale.net

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“The beauty of a woman is a combination of values: intellect, sympathy, sensuality, physique, simplicity, sweetness, charm, elegance, transgression, passion and culture. Values that make it unique in its nature.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: La bellezza di una donna è una combinazione di valori: intelletto, simpatia, sensualità, fisico, semplicità, dolcezza, fascino, eleganza, trasgressione, passione e cultura. Valori che la rendono unica nella sua natura.
Source: prevale.net

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“Take care of the individual moments: spontaneous, exciting and unique. That's where happiness resides.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Prendetevi cura dei singoli momenti: spontanei, emozionanti ed unici. È lì che risiede la felicità.
Source: prevale.net

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“In anyone family, the primary importance is its uniqueness.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: In qualsiasi famiglia, l'importanza primaria è la sua unicità.
Source: prevale.net

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“You will become strong and unique when you work on what no one can take away from you: your mentality, your character and your personality.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Diventerete forti ed unici quando lavorerete su ciò che nessuno potrà portarvi via: la vostra mentalità, il vostro carattere e la vostra personalità.
Source: prevale.net

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“The beauty that tells the uniqueness of a woman, bears your name.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: La bellezza che racconta l'unicità di una donna, porta il tuo nome.
Source: prevale.net

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“Be and remain yourself, unconditionally. It's good to be yourself: true, rare, unique and authentic.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Siate e restate voi stessi, incondizionatamente. È bello essere se stessi: veri, rari, unici e autentici.
Source: prevale.net

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“Anyone who feels true love for a person, will also love your flaws, considering them peculiarities that will make them unique in the world.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Chiunque provi vero amore per una persona, amerà anche i suoi difetti, considerandoli peculiarità che la renderanno unica al mondo.
Source: prevale.net

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“Should you meet a special person in life who believes in true love, in respect and in everything that makes the heart beat: cherish her; people like these are simply more unique than rare. Difficult to meet.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Se nella vita doveste incontrare una persona speciale che creda nel vero amore, nel rispetto e in tutto ciò che faccia battere il cuore: abbiate cura di lei; persone così sono semplicemente più uniche che rare. Difficili da incontrare.
Source: prevale.net