Mari Tufts Browse All Authors Famous Quotes by Mari Tufts I've always been different, and it took me a long time to love my kind of different. But through all my doubts and all hard times I kept a hold of one single phrase a teacher told me when I was 11."They laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same." And I've been laughing ever since Mari Tufts I did it so people will start to see that girls are not a distraction and to stop teaching young men that it is an acceptable excuse to be distracted from their education, i found there was no correlation between any of the photos that were in dress code or out of dress code. So I proved clothes that were dress code violations were no more distracting. Mari Tufts living