Outsiders Quotes - Page 4

• I've always felt myself to be an outsider. I've always felt awkward.

  Jeremy Paxman

  Awkward, Felt

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• I hate people doing an emotional striptease. It's never genuine or they wouldn't drag outsiders m.

  Evelyn Anthony

  Hate, Emotional, People

  Evelyn Anthony (2015). “The Avenue of the Dead”, p.50, Open Road Media

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• I'll bring in outsiders to evaluate state agencies. They can sometimes see what we can't.

  Tom Osborne

  Agency, Sometimes, States

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• I had no idea what I was walking into, and the years and years of hard work it would take. I felt like an outsider and like it was never going to happen. But even if I would have known, I think I still would have done it. Dancers are perfectionists, and that's what keeps us going and growing.

  Misty Copeland

  Hard Work, Thinking, Years

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• Men, I'm getting out of Rome. Anyone who wants to carry on the war against the outsiders, come with me. I can offer you neither honours nor wages; I offer you hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Anyone who loves his country, follow me

  Giuseppe Garibaldi

  Country, War, Men

  Guiseppe Guerzoni 'Garibaldi' (1882) vol. 1, p. 331. (The speech was not recorded verbatim.)

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• If one is interested in the relations between fields which, according to customary academic divisions, belong to different departments, then he will not be welcomed as a builder of bridges, as he might have expected, but will rather be regarded by both sides as an outsider and troublesome intruder.

  Rudolf Carnap

  Bridges, Different, Division

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• To the people here, we are outsiders. Foreigners.

  Roberto Clemente

  People, Foreigners

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• You become sort of insulated in this bubble when you're working on something that it's hard to have an outsider's perspective on what works and what doesn't so it's always good to see what other people think.

  John Francis Daley

  Thinking, People, Perspective

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• Prague is not, strictly speaking, travel writing but it is, among other things, an excellent example of what travel writing is becoming, if indeed it hasn't already done so. . . . People are no longer so easily satisfied by the mere travel impressions of some outsider much like themselves. Instead they gravitate towards writers who actually have lived not simply in, but inside, a location for an extended period, as one lives inside one's clothes.

  George Fetherling

  Writing, Clothes, People

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• Everything I loved had been dead for two centuries - or, as in the case of Graeco-Roman classicism, for two milenniums. I am never a part of anything around me - in everything I am an outsider. Should I find it possible to crawl backward through the Halls of Time to that age which is nearest my own fancy, I should doubtless be bawled out of the coffee-houses for heresy in religion, or else lampooned by John Dennis till I found refuge in the deep, silent Thames, that covers many another unfortunate.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Coffee, Two, House

  Letter to "The Keicomolo" - Kleiner, Cole, and Moe (October 1916), in "Selected Letters I, 1911-1924" edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, (p. 27), 1964.

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• Judge and prosecutor had hammered it home that Lady Chatterly was an immoral woman, that she had had sexual relations before marriage, that she had committed adultery under her husband's roof; as if these charges somehow disqualified her from participation in serious literature. Indeed, there were long periods of the trial during which an outsider might well have assumed that a divorce case was being heard.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Husband, Home, Divorce

  "Lady Chatterly's Trial (The Old Bailey, 20 October - 2 November 1960)". "Tynan Right and Left: Plays, Films, People, Places and Events". Book by Kenneth Tynan, p. 409, 1967.

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• Once I returned to the Church and began to see the universe as a place that really did incorporate redemption and really tried to understand the implications of there being a God, my identification with the vampires as outcasts, as outsiders and lost souls began to totally wane. It no longer worked for me. I had done it. It had led me to this point.

  Anne Rice

  Soul, Church, Vampire

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• I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.

  Carson McCullers

  Cat, Climbing, Tree

  Carson McCullers (1998). “Clock Without Hands”, p.214, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you're a little mouseburger, come with me. I was a mouseburger and I will help you. You're so much more wonderful than you think. Cosmopolitan is shot full of this stuff although outsiders don't realize it. It is, in its way, an inspiration magazine.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Inspiration, Thinking, Magazines

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• For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly than to argue.

  Olive Schreiner

  Experience, Action, Arguing

  Olive Schreiner (1998). “Woman and Labor”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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• We are essentially outsiders and that is the best definition of an entrepreneur I have ever come across.

  Anita Roddick

  Entrepreneur, Definitions

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• I was strong and tough enough and charming. / How else is a fat Jew lesbian poet gonna get by? / Listening to the radio, staying home, staying alone, like / they mean us to. / Who means you to be left out? / Who don't?

  Elana Dykewomon

  Strong, Mean, Home

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• The free electoral process is one of the things that outsiders envy most about this country. The distinctly American two-party system is perpetuated through that process.

  Robert A. Agresta

  Country, Party, Two

  Inauguration Speech at the Mayor & Council Meeting, January 2009.

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• I felt permanently exiled from 'normality.' Whether imposed by self or society, this outsider status - and not the disability itself - constitutes the most daunting barrier for most people with physical impairments, because it, even more than flights of steps or elevators without braille, prevents them from participating fully in the ordinary world, where most of life's satisfactions dwell.

  Nancy Mairs

  Self, Ordinary World, People

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• Idealization of a group is a natural consequence of separation from the group; in other words, it is a by-product of alienation.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Groups, Separation, Natural

  Paula Gunn Allen (2015). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, p.107, Open Road Media

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• Institutionalized rejection of differences is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such an economy, we have all been programmed to respond to the human differences between us with fear and loathing and to handle that difference in one of three ways: ignore it, and if that is not possible, copy it if we think it is dominant, or destroy it if we think it is subordinate.

  Audre Lorde

  Thinking, Differences, People

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

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• I'll admit that the discovery of evolution is humbling, but it is also empowering. It transforms our relationship to the life around us. Instead of being outsiders watching the natural world go by, we are insiders. We are part of the process; we are the exquisite result of billions of years of natural research and development.

  Bill Nye

  Discovery, Years, Research And Development

  Bill Nye (2014). “Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation”, p.4, St. Martin's Press

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• When you are a member of an out-group, and you challenge others with whom you share this outsider position to examine some aspect of their lives that distorts differences between you, then there can be a great deal of pain.

  Audre Lorde

  Pain, Differences, Challenges

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.86, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Officialdom is hostile to inquiring outsiders.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Inquiring, Bureaucracy, Hostile

  Martha Gellhorn (2015). “The View From The Ground”, p.313, Granta Books

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• I think if I was Trinidadian, I would latch more on to the myths and romanticise the place more. I don't think it's my place to do that - they're not really mine. I'm an outsider.

  Peter Doig

  Thinking, Trinidadians, Latches

  "Peter Doig: the outsider comes home". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2012.

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