“The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.”
Orson Welles
“More than print and ink, a newspaper is a collection of fierce individualists who somehow manage to perform the astounding daily miracle of merging their own personalities under the discipline of the deadline and retain the flavor of their own minds in print.”
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
“True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would-be-sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated or worried eye on what is in the wind”
Louis Kronenberger
“When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I'm labeled senile.”
George Burns
“We started off as a very individualistic program where everybody was doing their own thing, but we've come a long way and we're starting to play as a team. I'm very proud of them.”
Manny Diaz
“He was an individualist if there ever was one. He was his own person.”
Jim Graham
“He's an individualist. He wanted to stick to that line. We kept nudging him, and he stuck to his guns and he proved right.”
Jeff Wintersteen