Outsiders Quotes - Page 16

• We were German-Americans in a British colony, so we were outsiders.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  British, Colony

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• You know, it's trying to put toothpaste back in the tube. Not only are there a lot of outsiders intervening but this also involves a vicious internal war. There are many who believe the Alawites will fight to the death because they believe that, should they lose power, the majority would take, would show no compassion for them. They ruled that country for a long time, ruthlessly. It is a vicious civil war that makes one want to cry every day.

  John Kasich

  Country, War, Believe

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• I'm a catalyst for change. You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Success, Business, Years

  "Rupert Murdoch: Protector of the printed word" by James Robinson, www.theguardian.com. August 8, 2009.

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• I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

  Ethan Embry

  School, Thinking, Trying

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

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• I relate to most of the characters I play, because I do feel like an outsider.

  Jon Heder

  Character, Play, Feels

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• Change can only come from local citizens and politicians - it cannot be imposed by well-meaning foreigners - not least because a society like Afghanistan or Iraq is suspicious of outsiders and often resistant to change. I am not going to get drawn into the ethics of intervening in other countries. My concern is the practical question. Can you actually achieve change in this way? My guess is we can stop wars sometimes as in the Balkans and topple regimes - but that the other stuff - such as corruption is not within our power to effect and alter.

  Rory Stewart

  Country, War, Ethics

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Luckily, growing up "unfinished" can make geeks the very best people to guide and nurture the next generation of outsiders: We know you don't have to be finished to be awesome.

  Stephen H. Segal

  Growing Up, People, Generations

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• I've always been an outsider. I grew up in an isolated house surrounded by three moats. There was no money. I left school early. It was a world of its own. I became fascinated by consciousness because there was nothing much to do except mooch about and think. I had the occasional mystical experience. I studied consciousness, reading all the books I could get.

  Amanda Feilding

  Book, Reading, School

  Source: www.slate.com

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• No chord in populism reverberates more strongly than the notion that the robust common sense of an unstained outsider is the best medicine for an ailing polity. Caligula doubtless got big cheers from the plebs when he installed his horse as proconsul.

  Alexander Cockburn

  Horse, Cheer, Medicine

  "Obama's Speech; McCain's Palinomy" by Alexander Cockburn, www.counterpunch.org. August 30, 2008.

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• I know I am a human being. I can give myself to one year for a project. That is why I say I'm primitive in the way I work, especially compared to most artists. I came to New York in 1974, knowing that it is the art center of the world. But I didn't go to find people for my work. I do the work, and the people come to me, and I learn from them. That has always been my approach - to do the job first and then to respond to it after I finish and learn what people think about it. That's how I develop, and I'm more of an outsider in that way.

  Tehching Hsieh

  Art, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The vampire is an outsider. He's the perfect metaphor for those things. He's someone who looks human and sounds human, but is not human, so he's always on the margins.

  Anne Rice

  Perfect, Vampire, Sound

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• I think the entrepreneurial activities that make art visible and attractive are what lure people into the amusement park that SoHo has become or that Bushwick or Williamsburg has become. It's not that outsiders come to an area because they hear artists are living there. A lot of people came who were not that interested in living with artists, but they were interested in living like artists and socializing the way that they thought artists socialized.

  Sharon Zukin

  Art, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think a lot of us go through a period where we feel like outsiders, and deal with that by wishing we were insiders. So that was the emotional core of American Born Chinese.

  Gene Luen Yang

  Emotional, Thinking, Chinese

  "It’s a Coder! It’s a Teacher! It’s a Kick-Ass Graphic Novelist!". Interview With Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2015.

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• The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Trouble, American Life, Hard

  "The Unknown Wisdom of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis" edited by Bill Adler, 1994.

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• I've never thought of myself as an outsider but the more I'm around people, it appears to be that I'm an outsider. When they look at you and go, "What planet did you drop in from?" I don't know, but it's always been like that.

  Caleb Landry Jones

  People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's still very relevant to how politics works within government, but in terms of the way into politics for an outsider, no, I don't think that would work. I don't know what would, other than... people are going online, and finding the single issue topics. I mean, look at the junior doctors' strike at the moment, or benefit cuts. That sort of cut across parties, and real pressure was felt in the government from inside and out.

  Armando Iannucci

  Real, Party, Mean

  Source: thequietus.com

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• To describe Russian politics as "managed democracy" - and that's sometimes hard for outsiders to understand, because a lot of the forms of democracy exist in Russia, so there are elections; there is a press; there is a campaign, and so on. But the outcome of the campaign is never in doubt. So the campaign is manipulated. There is a real opposition in Russia. There are one or two real opposition figures who do want to change the political system, but they will probably not be allowed to run, and one way or another they will be prevented from being on the ballot.

  Anne Applebaum

  Running, Real, Political

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Planning a wedding is hell. Things are said. Doors are slammed. Quarrels about the most inconsequential things--yellow tablecloths or white? hors d'oeuvres set out on tables or passed around on trays?--are often pitched at such a level that it seems the combatants may never recover from them. Much of the anxiety, of course, is tribal. It is wrenching to have to open the sacred circle to admit an outsider.

  Caitlin Flanagan

  Doors, Circles, Yellow

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• I literally felt like a freak, which is another aspect of the role of Sally that I relate to: total outsider.

  Kristen Johnston

  Roles, Freak, Aspect

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• The success [of the X-Men], I think, is for two reasons. The first is that, creatively, the book was close to perfect ... but the other reason is that it was a book about being different in a culture where, for the first time in the West, being different wasn't just accepted, but was also fashionable. I don't think it's a coincidence that gay rights, black rights, the empowerment of women and political correctness all happened over those twenty years and a book about outsiders trying to be accepted was almost the poster-boy for this era in American culture.

  Mark Millar

  Book, Gay, Men

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• One thing about hanging out with a bunch of clean drug addicts, everyone is just super similar to you. So that has been awesome. I've made a lot of friends who are coming from an extremely similar place, even if they seem externally very different. I know I am an outsider in a number of ways, but I don't feel weird.

  Mike Doughty

  Drug, Different, Hanging Out

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Revenge feels right only to those directly involved. Justice feels right even to outsiders.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Revenge, Justice, Feels Right

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• Historically different groups find different things in each comics, as with *X-Men*. Gay readers find parallels to living a closeted lifestyle or choosing to come out and be openly gay. Black readers find a relevance to their lives growing up in America as a black guy. Picked-on brainy kids find a metaphor for being an outsider. It's a simple enough, and direct enough metaphor that it has different shades for different people. And so each reader to some degree gets out of it what they bring to it. That's one of the things I think that makes *X-Men* such a strong property.

  Tom Brevoort

  Strong, Growing Up, Kids

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• Stick on this that Donald Trump as the outsider doesn't know what's going on. That the inside-the-Beltway culture is special and it's so unique and it's so tiny that nobody that's not part of it could ever, ever function. Nobody who's not in the establishment could possibly understand it. So they have an arrogance that leads to a condescension against people, which leads the inside-the-Beltway, the establishment, both parties, to think of Trump as no different than his voters, a bumpkin idiot.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Unique, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• There's a thing in the U.K., particularly in London, where it's kind of the idea of subculture and counterculture and the outside and the idea that it's great to be a freak and the freak always wins. So I think English girls are a lot less scared of being the freak or looking like an idiot. To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England. I don't know - I'm not American. But I think the majority of American teenagers don't want to be the freak.

  Edie Campbell

  Girl, Teenager, Winning

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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