Being different Quote by Jhumpa Lahiri

I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I looked different, I had different skin, my hair was different, so I would get called names in school. It would always be reflective…

— A. J. Odudu

I was always growing, so it made no sense for my mom and dad to load me up with a bunch of clothes. But…

— Iman Shumpert

My fashion is part of who I am, and though I was not born with these clothes on, I was born this way.

— Lady Gaga

When I was growing up, I didn't really have a lot of different things I could wear. As I got older, the more I…

— Iman Shumpert

I didn’t want people to decide what I was going to wear and what I was going to look like and how I should…

— Clemence Poesy

When I was younger, I used to power dress - I'd wear black and grey and suits all the time, to make it feel…

— Sara Davies

I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.

— Kate Bosworth

There was someone who wanted to label me because I didn't wear the same clothes that I wore in 1988 or 1989...No one is…

— MC Hammer

My parents were like, 'Oh my God,' when I said I was going into fashion - they pictured me with a rolling rack on…

— Mindy Grossman

I changed my name because it didn't fit with the way I saw myself.

— Daniel Tammet

I got rid of my glasses and they changed my hair. That's really all they did. They went shopping for me, so the clothes…

— Clay Aiken