Outsiders Quotes

• I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

  Bill Hicks

  Bullying, Revolutionary Ideas, Creative

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• Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have.

  Diane Abbott

  Insight, Insiders

  "Politicians interview pundits: Diane Abbott and Nick Robinson". Interview with Nick Robinson, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2009.

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• Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Change, People, Situation

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• They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.

  S. E. Hinton

  Fighting, Grew Up, Grew

  "The Outsiders". Taglines, www.imdb.com. March 25, 1983.

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• I'm aware of being a stranger, an outsider, and that's always an advantage for an artist. It means I can see from the inside and the outside. I have that double vision.

  John Hirsch

  Mean, Artist, Double Vision

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• When people talk about imagination, they tend to think of fantasy or something made-up. But really imagination is a mode of perception. Which is maybe why so many artists have turned to the occult. Artists tend to feel like outsiders. Whether they are actually outsiders or not is also kind of irrelevant.

  Janaka Stucky

  Artist, Thinking, People

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• Before vampires were aesthetically appealing, they were physical anomalies and ostracized outsiders whom we banished to the dark, and they didn't have the appeal that they do now.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Dark, Vampire, Anomalies

  FaceBook post by Ian Somerhalder from Jun 24, 2014

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• It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Should Have, Political, Intellectual

  "Anti-Intellectualism in American Life". Book by Richard Hofstadter, pp. 145-146, 1963.

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• To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable equations and incomprehensible concepts. Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas.

  Ivars Peterson

  Math, Ideas, World

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• It's like people believe all you need to do is like the same bands in order to be soulmates. Or book. Oh my god...you like The Outsiders too...it's like we're the same person! No, we're not. It's like we have the same English teacher. There's a difference.

  John Green

  Teacher, Soulmate, Real

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• A lot of the main characters in horror movies are outsiders as well, so that outsider syndrome reverberates within horror fans and geeky collectors. It's kind of a rallying call that brings fans and collectors together who are a little socially retarded, maybe.

  Kirk Hammett

  Character, Together, Fans

  "Metallica's Kirk Hammett discusses vintage horror and geek bonding". Interview with Kenny Herzog, www.avclub.com. October 5, 2012.

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• In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Artist, Remains

  Simone de Beauvoir (1965). “The prime of life”

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• It's easy to gravitate toward something negative as opposed to something positive, especially if you're an outsider.

  Blake Judd

  Negative, Easy, Ifs

  "Don't Call It a Rip-Off". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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• Inside I'll always be an outsider

  Eminem

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• I learned early in life not to judge others. We outcasts are very happy and content to leave that job to our social superiors.

  Ethel Waters

  Jobs, Judging, Journalism

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• Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.

  Audre Lorde

  Differences, People, Rejection

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.115, Crossing Press

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• I'm not a media darling. I'm forever the outsider, for whatever the reason is.

  Russell Peters

  Media, Forever, Reason

  "How Russell Peters Got The Last Laugh". Interview with Ross Luippold, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 23, 2013.

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• The outsider is not sure who he is. He has found an “I”, but it is not his true “I”.’ His main business is to find his way back to himself.

  Colin Wilson

  Way, Found, Not Sure

  Colin Wilson (2014). “The Outsider”, p.194, Diversion Books

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• Everybody can relate to being an outsider, having to deal with that, and having to wrestle with how people view them.

  LeCrae

  Views, People, Deals

  Source: www.artistdirect.com

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• In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life to keep on the move. Travel is natural.

  James Salter

  Moving, Natural, Certain

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• It was very difficult to write about my own country, because I have always been the outsider looking in.

  Asne Seierstad

  Country, Writing, Difficult

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.

  S. E. Hinton

  Sunset, Class, Watches

  S.E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.42, Penguin

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• Suddenly it wasn't only a personal thing to me. I could picture hundreds and hundreds of boys living on the wrong sides of cities, boys with black eyes who jumped at their own shadows. Hundreds of boys who maybe watched sunsets and looked at stars and ached for something better. I could see boys going down under street lights because they were mean and tough and hated the world, and it was too late to tell them that there was still good in it, and they wouldn't believe you if you did.

  S. E. Hinton

  Stars, Believe, Sunset

  S. E. Hinton (2012). “The Outsiders”, p.119, Penguin

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• And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside.

  Stephen King

  Osmosis, Together, Sociology

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.1187, Anchor

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• I'm a drifter and an outsider. There's not one single environment I can totally belong to.

  Ang Lee

  Environment, Drifters, I Can

  "Happily dogged by controversy"by James Robinson, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2007.

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