Outlaw Quotes - Page 2

• In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Song, Art

  Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.73, Macmillan

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• I am a friend to any brave and gallant outlaw.

  Belle Starr

  Brave, Gallant

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• Outlaws are can openers in the supermarket of life.

  Tom Robbins

  Still Life With Woodpecker, Supermarkets

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.62, Bantam

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• They say if you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. Well, those are precisely the people who need them!

  George Carlin

  Funny, Humor, Gun

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• I always wanted to be the outlaw. And that's to a certain extent how I've lived.

  James Frey

  Certain, Wanted

  "James Frey: 'I always wanted to be the outlaw'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2011.

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• It can be frustrating and even frightening to observe the success which sometimes comes to outlaws and rogues who seem to refute notions of universal justice. Every time we see a villain enjoying the fruits of dishonorable acts we find ourselves doubting the value of character and the validity of the virtues we have been taught. Thus, it takes character to believe in character, but that belief is always rewarded, often by material success, but always by the esteem it earns from those who matter.

  Michael Josephson

  Believe, Character, Justice

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• A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drops.

  Johnny Bench

  Softball, Baseball, Horse

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Evil needs to be understood for what it is: the dynamic of the absence of Light. It is not something that one should prepare to battle, to run from, or to outlaw.

  Gary Zukav

  Running, Godly, Light

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Sep 25, 2012

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• I think, generally, the flawed anti-hero is much more interesting than the normal hero, and that's really what we're talking about here as it relates to outlaws or renegades.

  Tod Goldberg

  Hero, Thinking, Talking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For me to sit here and give all kinds of excuses to make it right, I can't do. But what I want to ask everyone out there, everyone that has a child, everyone that has a brother, a sister: if your child or family member was abducted today, if a mad man came in, a terrorist came in, abducted your family member or your child and if I said to you I can bring your child home...does it matter how I bring them home?

  Sam Childers

  Family, Sister, Brother

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• Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

  Frank Jackson

  Motivational, Determination, Smart

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• The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.

  Gertrude Stein

  Art, Classic, Composition

  Gertrude Stein, Ulla E. Dydo (1993). “A Stein Reader”, p.496, Northwestern University Press

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• There’s something so great about this,” she whispers. About what?” I whisper back. About this,” she whispers. About being outlaws. It’s just you and me—against the world.

  Sonya Sones

  World, Me Against The World

  Sonya Sones (2010). “What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy.

  Phil Zimmermann

  Privacy, Ifs, Security

  "Battle of the Clipper Chip" by Steven Levy, www.nytimes.com. 1994.

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• The average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth... It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty - and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Average, Special

  Baltimore Evening Sun, February 12, 1923.

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• I'm a hard man to fight and an easy man to please... A Rock n' Roll Outlaw on a Sweet Romance.. I Want To Be Your Man.

  Ashley Purdy

  Sweet, Fighting, Men

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• Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Garden, Environmental, Vigor

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.39, Xist Publishing

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• To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I never had a place I could call home that meant any more than a key to a house, apartment or hotel room. ... Am I alien? Alien from what exactly? Perhaps my home is my dream city, more real than my waking life precisely because it has no relation to waking life.

  William S. Burroughs

  Dream, Real, Home

  "Strange cats" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 1995.

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• I've always had a massive fascination with the modern day cowboys. Modern day outlaws or going against the system, and that's always been very intriguing to me.

  Theo Rossi

  Cowboy, Fascination, Intriguing

  "Theo Rossi Talks Sons of Anarchy: Brick Season 4" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. October 04, 2011.

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• I was tired of an outlaw's life.

  Frank James

  Tired

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• Sharks are the criminals of the sea. Dolphins are the outlaws.

  Tom Robbins

  Sharks, Sea, Dolphins

  "Still Life with Woodpecker". Book by Tom Robbins, 1980.

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• Today the most outlaw thing you can possibly do in Nashville, Tennessee, is play country music.

  Marty Stuart

  Country, Nashville, Play

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• Innovative people have always been in high demand. Help those around you to develop that “never-say-die” attitude by developing it yourself. Make a decision, today, to outlaw complaining, whining and negative thinking in your own personality. And, a word of caution: if and when you are criticized for being so positive or as some call it, “unrealistic,” you will know you are on the right track.

  Bob Proctor

  Attitude, Thinking, Ifs And

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 07, 2011

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• The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture

  Camille Paglia

  Nature, Men, Feminist

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.18, Vintage

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• At least when the Emperor Justinian, a sky-god man, decided to outlaw sodomy, he had to come up with a good practical reason, which he did. It is well known, Justinian declared, that buggery is a principal cause of earthquakes, and so must be prohibited. But our sky-godders, always eager to hate, still quote Leviticus, as if that looney text had anything useful to say about anything except, perhaps, the inadvisability of eating shellfish in the Jerusalem area.

  Gore Vidal

  Hate, Men, Sky

  "America First? America Last? America at Last?". Lowell Lecture, Harvard University, April 20, 1992.

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