Outsiders Quotes - Page 17

• We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely

  Hugo Weaving

  Lonely, Way, Weaving

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• There was a Russian cult of eunuchs known as the Skoptsy who were renowned for their proficiency as mathematicians, bankers, and moneylenders. Outsiders called them rapacious but this was simply their jealousy speaking - when one is freed from sexual desire, or sexual desire is transmuted into work, suddenly the world becomes engorged with possibilities.

  Hamilton Morris

  Desire, World, Possibility

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I felt like I was an outsider. I think what happened to me made me develop this street sense of watching people and working out what made them tick, wondering whether I could trust them or not. I went to a lot of schools along the coast in California, made few friends and stayed with aunts, uncles and grandparents while my folks tried to make ends meet. It was tough. We had no money.

  Tobey Maguire

  Uncles, School, Aunt

  "Tobey's Lonely Childhood Will Help Him In Spider-Man Role" by wenn.com, January 31, 2001.

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• I have always liked kind of outsider characters. In the movies I grew up liking, you had more complicated characters. I don't mean that in a way that makes us better or anything. I just seem to like characters who don't really fit into. You always hear that from the studio: "You have to be able to root for them, they have to be likeable, and the audience has to be able to see themselves in the characters." I feel that's not necessarily true. As long as the character has some type of goal or outlook on the world, or perspective, you can follow that story.

  Jody Hill

  Character, Mean, Long

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• The Washington establishment does not like the Tea Party. Don't you love all these politicians that run around and campaign as outsiders, anti-establishment, 'I'm not part of that Washington culture.' Well, then join the Tea Party, 'cause that's who's really anti-establishment, that's who's really a bunch of outsiders is the Tea Party. But you don't see those politicians who want to be considered outsiders joining or embracing the Tea Party, do you?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Party, Tea

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I never felt cool growing up. I was a bit of an outsider, but I discovered theatre very early on, which got me through.

  Eric McCormack

  Growing Up, Theatre, Felt

  "What I know about women". Interview with Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2007.

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• Where do poor young people turn? ISIS has a mission for you to change the world! It's a horrific vision, but it's a vision. Perhaps for white supremacists, you can add the additional storyline that they believe that they are having something taken from them by outsiders, by immigrants. Not only are they losing out and bored, but they think they are victims and that they know who is responsible.

  Garry Kasparov

  Believe, Taken, Thinking

  "Garry Kasparov on Russia, chess, and the great gambit of AI". Interview With Alexander Bisley, www.macleans.ca. May 1, 2017.

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• I did not always trust my teachers, because I found them too weak. I was looking for something that could take me in a new direction, for things that I could admire. And because it was so hard to find this, I became a sort of outsider. That's why I began to identify with the insane, "outsider" artists.

  Georg Baselitz

  Teacher, Artist, Insane

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• The world is an unsafe place today because of his failed leadership, not because of anything Donald Trump has done. I mean, the American people are going to be reminded over and over in this election that these baseless charges by Obama and by Clinton are against man who has been the outsider, not the establishment.

  Paul J. Manafort

  Mean, Men, People

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• There's opposition in Europe to Turkish membership because these are the inevitable fears of energetic, poorer, Muslim outsiders who will come in and work hard and take jobs. There's also a fear that under E.U. rules Turkey might get a disproportionate amount of cohesion funds and agricultural subsidies - although it's quite clear that Europe is changing its rules, and that there will not be very much in the way of net transfers of resources from Europe to Turkey.

  Andrew Mango

  Hard Work, Inevitable, Turkish

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• A marriage is a private thing. It has its own wild laws, and secret histories, and savage acts, and what passes between married people is incomprehensible to outsiders. We look terrible to you, and severe, and you see our blood flying, but what we carry between us is hard-won, and we made it just as we wished it to be, just the color, just the shape.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Blood, Color, Law

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• I grew up in the South where there's discrimination, and when I witnessed the judgment around me, I always thought someone needs to stick up for not just the LGBT community but any outsider, anybody that wasn't the mold in Texas.

  Demi Lovato

  Lgbt Community, Texas, Sticks

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I don't have any authority to talk about the domestic policies of America. But as an outsider, I am mystified by the fact that you are encouraged to buy a gun, but if you use it for the purpose that it is expressly designed for, you get the death penalty. That aspect of America is kind of mystifying.

  Nick Cave

  Gun, America, Purpose

  "Q&A: Nick Cave and the Golden Reverb of Violence". Interview with Mike Ayers, www.esquire.com. August 29, 2012.

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• Because I was a chemistry student and was never supposed to be a musician, I always felt like I was an outsider looking at music going "Why is this interesting to me? Why should I be doing this?" and I never felt like I was a natural musician. It came into my life, kind of, as a conceptual problem and I think all my pieces are, in a way, looking at some issue and sometimes veering toward an inside baseball model of classical music.

  David Lang

  Baseball, Thinking, Interesting

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• The answer is the disruptive innovator, an outsider, who creates a product or service for the non-existing consumer in a non-existing market for almost no profit.

  Clayton Christensen

  Innovation, Answers, Profit

  "The Off-White Papers" by Clayton M. Christensen, Rabbi Irwin Kula, Craig Hatkoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2013.

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• Accepting Turkey as a member of the European club means that the club is open to outsiders, to Muslims, to poorer people, to developing countries, to countries with a slightly different cultural tradition but basically the same values. I think it's dangerous for the West to close the door; it doesn't do us any good and it doesn't do the rest of the world any good. Also, it reduces the danger of a "clash of civilizations".

  Andrew Mango

  Country, Mean, Thinking

  "The Turks Today". Interview With Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. October 26, 2005.

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• Patrick Swayze had done The Outsiders already - he was certainly the star of our class - and for a big, sexy, horseback-ridin' Texan to come over and tell me that I'm beautiful, and look me right in the eye and make me accept that there's a beauty in the characters I play meant so much to me.

  Beth Grant

  Beautiful, Sexy, Character

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In the past, I've felt like an outsider, with New York the center of everything literary, but right now, there are new opportunities being created that let us tell stories in the South, whether the medium is writing or TV or reality TV.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Writing, Past, Opportunity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The same applies to any artist; we are the tools and instruments of our talent. We are outsiders; we have no place in society because society is what we’re watching, and dealing with.

  William Trevor

  Artist, Tools, Talent

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• I look for a thematic idea running through my movies and I see that it's the outsider struggling for recognition. I realize that all my life I've been an outsider, and above all, being lonely but never realizing it.

  Martin Scorsese

  Running, Lonely, Struggle

  Martin Scorsese, Peter Brunette (1999). “Martin Scorsese: Interviews”, p.57, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The other thing that has changed - and this is more detailed to CPAC than the general Republican Party - is they have always been an outsider, Ann Coulter, sort of protest style, a little ruder than most Republicans. And this goes back all the way to [Ronald] Reagan.

  Mark Shields

  Party, Style, Littles

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Donald Trump is sort of the first candidate of his type that non-politician, true outsider, was coming to shake up the system.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Firsts, Politician, Type

  Source: tech.fortune.cnn.com

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• The Church must stop expecting outsiders to act like insiders while insiders act like outsiders.

  Andy Stanley

  Church, Expecting, Insiders

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• It is okay to be an outsider, a recent arrival, new on the scene - and not just okay, but something to be thankful for. ... Because being an insider can so easily mean collapsing the horizons, can so easily mean accepting the presumptions of your province.

  Tan Le

  Motivation, Inspiration, Mean

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• If youve ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays within you.

  Tim Burton

  Loneliness, Successful, Feelings

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