Outsiders Quotes - Page 18

• But on the other hand, in discussion and debate concerning social issues or American foreign policy, Vietnam or the Middle East, for example, the issue is constantly raised, often with considerable venom. I've repeatedly been challenged on grounds of credentials, or asked, what special training do you have that entitles you to speak of these matters. The assumption is that people like me, who are outsiders from a professional viewpoint, are not entitled to speak on such things.

  Noam Chomsky

  Hands, Issues, People

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• My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school, a stranger in a foreign country, the best at something, the worst at something, the one who's different. Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.

  Alice Hoffman

  Country, Healing, School

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• The great glory of travel, to me, is not just what I see that's new to me in countries visited, but that in almost every one of them I change from an outsider looking in to an insider looking out.

  Clara E. Laughlin

  Country, Glory, Insiders

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• Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.

  Ville Valo

  Art, Blame, Art Is

  7 days Finnland Interview, August 2000.

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• Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Ideas, United States

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.57, Beacon Press

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• Families aren't easy to join. They're like an exclusive country club where membership makes impossible demands and the dues for an outsider are exorbitant.

  Erma Bombeck

  Family, Country, Demand

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• Blessed, plainly, is that life which is not valued at the estimation of outsiders, but is known, as judge of itself, by its own inner feelings. It needs no popular opinions as its reward in any way; nor has it any fear of punishments. Thus the less it strives for glory, the more it rises above it. For to those who seek for glory, that reward in the shape of present things is but a shadow of future ones, and is a hindrance to eternal life, as it is written in the Scriptures: 'Truly I say to you, they have received their reward'

  Ambrose

  Christian, Blessed, Punishment

  St. Ambrose (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Ambrose (Annotated Edition)”, p.131, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Washington D.C.! Congress is full of self-declared outsiders.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Self, Congress

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Aleksandar Hemon". Interview with Rachel Dewoskin, therumpus.net. April 14, 2013.

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• I was an insurgent. I was, you know, an outsider. And I'm not sure that I'm not better being an outsider.

  Donald Trump

  Not Sure, Knows, Insurgent

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I've always just felt like an outsider. I've always been made fun of in school ever since kindergarten. For me, when I started singing, that's when I started making "friends,". That's when people started taking an interest in me. That was the thing that made me likable, I guess. Maybe even lovable! I think that's really why I'm so hellbent on doing this as a career is because those are the moments where I felt at my most confident.

  Allie X

  Fun, School, Thinking

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• I was a bit of an outsider in the hip-hop world because I was a scratch kid and people weren't necessarily trying to hear that all the time.

  A-Trak

  Kids, People, Hip Hop

  Source: www.gq.com

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• He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of him. He had lived as an outsider, an idler and onlooker, well liked in his young manhood, alone in his illness and advancing years. Seized with weariness, he sat down on the wall, and the river murmured darkly in his thoughts.

  Hermann Hesse

  Wall, Fall, Rivers

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• I guess I always think of myself as more of the people. I always feel like a bit of an outsider.

  Jeremy Scott

  Thinking, People, Feels

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Great performers in all fields seem immune to what outsiders think about them. Their sense of themselves never depends on the feedback-positive or negative-they get from the environment.

  John Eliot

  Thinking, Self Love, Achievement

  John Eliot (2006). “Overachievement: The New Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, Portfolio (Hardcover)

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• At the end of the day, if I do a set at a festival and I only have an hour, which is kind of short for a DJ set, I know that I have to play at least six of my songs. Then the whole challenge is what do I weave around that. How do I stand out? Because at a festival there's probably fifteen songs every DJ's going to play every hour, for the whole day. That to me is more interesting, because I still feel like an outsider in this world.

  A-Trak

  Song, Play, Interesting

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I guess they often cast me as the bad guy, because I'm not, er, conventional looking. I look sort of violent. I'm the odd one out, the outsider.

  Willem Dafoe

  Odd One, Guy, Looks

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• My plays tend to be peopled with outsiders in search of clarity.

  David Lindsay-Abaire

  Play, Clarity

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• I tend to write about people. I look at things from the bottom up and from the perspective of outsiders. A part of me just identifies with them. It's my messed up internal nature that I always feel like an outsider. It's just my nature. At film festivals, I was an outsider for sure, but I always felt like one as well. I have that feeling at parties, too. I don't belong there.

  Alex Kotlowitz

  Party, Writing, People

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I see the Koran very much as an outsider. It stands in the great prophetic tradition of trying to return people to the basic principles of spirituality. Taken for its time, it was an extraordinarily progressive declaration of principle. It is also extraordinary for a Christian to read: for example, there are more references to Mary than in the Gospels. The tragedy is that it has been so warped and misapplied.

  Tony Blair

  Christian, Taken, People

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• [The Outsiders] was very competitive, in the best possible way. Full of love, full of companionship and fellowship, pranks and practical jokes and ball-busting.

  Rob Lowe

  Fellowship, Way, Balls

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think [The Outsiders] really forged who I am as an actor, and it's one of the reasons why I keep being drawn to big ensembles where I'm surrounded by strong, successful actors or personalities. Because that was my initial foray into movie making.

  Rob Lowe

  Strong, Successful, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I see parallels between Karachi and the cities that I was familiar with: a very different place, but in terms of its human stories not really very different at all. That was what excited me about the place - that it was so complex, as difficult to me as an outsider and yet so human in a way that was ultimately very familiar.

  Steve Inskeep

  Different, Excited, Difficult

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Race is a universal flaw in humanity. So yes, I've been in many situations where I've felt like the outsider because of the color of my skin.

  Jordan Peele

  Race, Color, Humanity

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I’ve always been a sort of self-imposed outsider, not a geeky outsider or a snobby outsider but, I just have a natural desire to live on the fringe. I’m not like a weirdo with a trench-coat but I just prefer to be alone or minimally surrounded by people.

  Sara Quin

  Self, People, Desire

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• Everyone's a geek in some way or other. Everyone's an outsider.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Way, Geek

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