Outsiders Quotes - Page 5

• Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionaries.

  Jenny Holzer

  Revolutionary, Produce, Alienation

  Jenny Holzer, Noemi Smolik (1996). “Jenny Holzer: writing”

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• Those in the margins are always trying to get to the center, and those at the center, frequently in the name of tradition, are trying to keep the margins at a distance.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Distance, Names, Always Trying

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• I grew up in the Fifties, and the majority of people in my class had fathers living at home. I was very aware that I was in the minority. I had a foreign name, and my daddy didn't come and pick me up from school. I felt like an outsider, which probably helped me as an actress.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Father, Home, School

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• The more closed the circle, the more difficult it is for 'outsiders' to break in. Their very difficulty in entering may be taken as a sign of incompetence, a sign that the insiders were right to close their ranks.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Taken, Circles, Entering

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter (1993). “Men and Women of the Corporation”, p.68, Basic Books

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• A mediator is an impartial outsider who tries to aid the negotiators in their quest to find a compromise agreement.

  Howard Raiffa

  Agreement, Trying, Quests

  Howard Raiffa (1982). “The Art and Science of Negotiation”, p.23, Harvard University Press

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• I'm a stranger wherever I go, but I'm happy.

  Hualing Nieh Engle

  Stranger

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• I have the outsider's vision, which is creating wisdom I can share with the world. The fact that I am misunderstood has always given me an added impetus to work on communication to bridge the gap.

  Yoko Ono

  Communication, Bridges, Creating

  Source: www.yashawallin.com

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• I got born in the wrong family.

  Helen Cresswell

  Family, Born

  Helen Cresswell (1987). “Ordinary Jack: Being the First Part of the Bagthorpe Saga”, Viking Childrens Books

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• The period of financial distress is a gradual decline after the peak of a speculative bubble that precedes the final and massive panic and crash, driven by the insiders having exited but the sucker outsiders hanging on hoping for a revivial, but finally giving up in the final collapse.

  Charles P. Kindleberger

  Giving Up, Finals, Investing

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• Writers are spies. Outsiders. Believers in the turning pages.

  Alexis De Veaux

  Spy, Pages, Believer

  Alexis De Veaux (1974). “Spirits in the street”

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• I always think that the exceptional people are those who remain outsiders but still communicate on a grand scale. I think I want everyone to feel more free, and so I feel really claustrophobic on behalf of lots of people.

  Bat for Lashes

  Thinking, People, Want

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

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• Entrepreneurs are outsiders by nature - outsiders with a work ethic.

  Anita Roddick

  Work Ethic, Entrepreneur, Ethics

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• Pretty much everywhere I go, I'm pretty much thinking I'm going to be bounced. I am still the outsider who snuck into the party. I identify with the regular person, because that is who I am.

  Kathy Griffin

  Party, Thinking, Who I Am

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• Every land has its own special rhythm, and unless the traveler takes the time to learn the rhythm, he or she will remain an outsider there always.

  Juliette de Bairacli Levy

  Travel, Land, Special

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• Almost all of the stories in The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan are told in the first person, yet, depending on the angle and distance of the narrator, they exert different effects. The best are those in which the speaker never poses as an objective outsider. (...) Other stories are damaged by the urge to distance the narrator.

  Yiyun Li

  Football, Distance, Narrators

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• It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers.

  Luis Gutierrez

  Real, America, Littles

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• We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means available to outsiders.

  J. William Fulbright

  Mean, Trying, Tasks

  J. William Fulbright (2011). “The Arrogance of Power”, p.32, Random House

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• Like many authors, I caught the writing bug during my teenage years. I don't remember the exact day or year, but I remember that reading S.E. Hinton's 'The Outsiders' sparked my interest in writing.

  Ally Carter

  Teenage, Reading, Writing

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• I've always been an outsider; a displaced person.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Persons

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• When you arrive in China nowadays, one of the first things you note is the emphasis placed on you, a non-Chinese person, being an outsider.

  Howard W. French

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We have experienced the truth of this prophecy, for England has become the habitation of outsiders and the dominion of foreigners. Today, no Englishman is earl, bishop, or abbott, and newcomers gnaw away at the riches and very innards of England; nor is there any hope for an end of this misery.

  William of Malmesbury

  Riches, England, Bishops

  "The English and the Normans". Book by Hugh Thomas, p. 56, 2003.

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• Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.

  Diane Abbott

  Looks, Village, London

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

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• I love New York, but I'd felt like an outsider here.

  Michael Arad

  New York, I Love New York, Felt

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• It was easy to believe, between lessons on Shakespeare and Dickens and Austen, that all of the great stories had already been written by dead Europeans. But every time I saw 'The Outsiders', I knew better. It was the first time I'd realized that real people write books.

  Ally Carter

  Real, Believe, Book

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• Being an outsider means not being heard, not having a voice. It means being treated as a second-class citizen, being diminished in the eyes of others. We have all felt this way at one time or another, but some feel it more consistently. Unfortunately, our schools often do not embrace the talents of many of their occupants.

  Chris Crutcher

  Mean, Eye, School

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