Boris Johnson Quotes

When I was born, I always knew something was a little bit different about me.

I was never a skilled artist or anything like that - never a rebel.

I think I always felt like an outsider, like a weirdo.

I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.

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

Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

I think we all feel like weirdos for different reasons.

Being female was just one more way I felt different and weird. I was also a young 'un, and also my cartoons were not like typical 'New Yorker' cartoons.

Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different.

I'd rather call myself a mischief-maker, an imp, rather than a satirist. Satirist sounds so self important. Plus no one is calling himself an imp right now. It makes me feel special.

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.

I feel really different from other musicians.

Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.

I wasn't like most girls.

Yes, I think I am a genius, but not a rebel.

Everyone has their thing, and I was the weird, artsy kid.

Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.

In my research, I've interviewed a lot of people who never fit in, who are what you might call 'different': scientists, artists, thinkers. And if you drop down deep into their work and who they are, there is a tremendous amount of self-acceptance.

I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.

I've always been an outsider to some extent.

Being different gives the world color.

I discovered when I was young that I was not like everyone else, and that was great, because it's the people who are different who bring about change and new things.

I don't feel inferior in the slightest to anybody - or superior to anybody, let's get that clear. But I do feel different.

I wasn't intentionally trying to be different, but that was an element of what I naturally do that happened to be unique enough to spark a curiosity for people.

You have to realize that people are always going to be confused or sometimes threatened by someone who has the confidence to do something different.