Nicki Minaj Quotes

It is hard to be an island of excellence in a sea of indifference.

I am not in the roll of common men.

I just had this notion that I wanted to do the most extreme thing I could and I also very consciously wanted to do something that was very different from Mars because we were all very close.

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

I'm beyond the normal person. I'm not your everyday Joe.

I don't want to go out there and do something 3,000 other people can do.

I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.

She had in mind a different kind of looking person, because his appearance is not at all like mine.

We can’t all be better than everyone else.

I'm not trying to be average.

I'm like the only Kiwi that can fly, I'm the one with the biggest wing.

I don't want to be special.

I try to be as humble as possible, but I'm just on another level. That's all there is to it.

I always knew I was different than everyone else, and smarter.

My voice gon' stick out like a turd in a punch bowl.

Each one is different; each season is different.

You can't pretend there has ever been anyone come close to doing what I did. Nobody you could name could touch me, and I'm talking about nobody who's around now, nobody who was around in my prime, and nobody who was around any time you can mention outta your mouth.

There is no such thing as an average human being. If you have a normal brain, you are superior.

So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.

Great performers are, by definition, abnormal; they strive throughout their entire careers to separate themselves from the pack.

I think there is a blossom about me of something more distinguished than the generality of mankind.

If everyone is exceptional, nobody is exceptional.

Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it.

a large percentage of bright young men and women locate the impetus behind their career choice in the belief that they are fundamentally different from the common run of man, unique and in certain crucial ways superior, more as it were central, meaningful - what else could explain the fact that they themselves have been at the exact center of all they've experienced for the whole 20 years of their conscious lives? - and that they can and will make a difference in their chosen field simply by the fact of their unique and central presence to it...

Sometimes something can look beautiful just because it's different in some way from the other things around it. One red petunia in a window box will look very beautiful if all the rest of them are white, and vice-versa.