Outsiders Quotes - Page 8

• I'm truly an outsider in the poetry world. When I started writing, I was trying to move my poems away from modernist lines.

  Richard Grossman

  Moving, Writing, Trying

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• What I was interested in is the lens organizing my sovereign space. I avoid the term outsider and also exile for the same reason. Outsider implies a kind of nobility.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Space, Sovereign, Lenses

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

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• Reading their letters and the First Amendment of the US Constitution, I infer that this nation's founders noted that religions have been at the center of great deal of trouble, so they precluded the US government from getting involved in religion, i.e. "... shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." Over the centuries, various religions have laid claim to various morals; consider the difficulties outsiders are having today in the Middle East, for example.

  Bill Nye

  Reading, Exercise, Law

  "BioLogos Interviews Bill Nye". Interview with Brad Kramer, biologos.org. February 4, 2015.

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• When I got into film school, it really formed a sense of who I am and my sense of feeling like an outsider. If there was some greater purpose to do this, it would be so that future generations - my kids or my sister's kids - would grow up seeing themselves in their media culture in a way that I didn't. If The Mindy Project or Master of None were on when I was growing up, I wonder if I would be interested in doing this at all

  Meera Menon

  Growing Up, School, Kids

  "Meera Menon and the Women of Wall Street". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2016.

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• Any social or cultural change has to be made openly and with people agreeing. You don't get there by just pushing an outsider's point of view.

  Melinda Gates

  Views, People, Pushing

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Somehow even tragedies seem less tragical, when you are the actors in them, than they look to outsiders

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Tragedy, Looks, Actors

  Hannah Whitall Smith (1950). “Philadelphia Quaker: the letters of Hannah Whitall Smith”

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• I spend as little time with lawmakers as possible. Many are great. And more than you expect want real change. But they're not going to do anything till we, the outsiders, force them to adopt it.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Real, Want, Littles

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 2, 2013.

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• In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumour that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by the group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the worst, that the other group can say.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Thinking, Differences

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• I don't think I'm an outsider at all.

  Christina Ricci

  Thinking

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• I was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.

  Vera Wang

  Fashion, Bridal, Insiders

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• I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.

  Ethel Waters

  Felt

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• I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and I have a great affinity for the outsider, but I definitely am about expanding my range as well.

  Rainn Wilson

  Character, Play, Balls

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

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• Outsiders develop humor as a defense; why do you think most comedians are gay or Jewish?

  Paul Lynde

  Gay, Thinking, Comedian

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• It wasn't easy for me to start in Bollywood because I was an outsider.

  Esha Gupta

  Bollywood, Easy

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• As a kid I just felt like an outsider.

  Marilyn Manson

  Kids, Felt

  "Freak or unique?". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2003.

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• In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in the glance and the shrug of the loser, the outsider, the despised minority. It is a nuance that comes most effortlessly to the oppressed.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Sunset, Ironic, Style

  Christopher Hitchens (2014). “Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere”, p.180, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I said that when I looked at photographs of the firefighters who went into the Twin Towers, their faces looked to me like Irish faces. I hadn't yet learnt how careful outsiders have to be when talking about race in America, and I'd put my foot in it. Someone stood up and said aggressively, 'What do you mean by Irish faces?'

  Colm Toibin

  Mean, Talking, Feet

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• [Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of the young psychoanalysts as your colleagues, collaborators and partners and not as spies, traitors and wayward children. You can never develop a science that way, only an orthodox church.

  Abraham Maslow

  Children, Science, Thinking

  "New Pathways in Psychology: Maslow and the Post-Freudian Revolution". Book by Colin Wilson, November 1960.

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• In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

  Desmond Tutu

  Family, Enemy

  "Archbishop Desmond Tutu". Interview with Dr. Frank Lipman, www.bewell.com. April 14, 2009.

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• I think there is something a little too self conscious about enjoying being an outsider.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Thinking, Self, Littles

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• I feel like my friends are in a cult because we're like, 'No outsiders!

  Leighton Meester

  Cult, Feels, My Friends

  "The Many Faces of Leighton Meester". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 5, 2009.

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• I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group.

  Anne Rice

  Groups, Literature, Members

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• I know that Oswald killed Kennedy. Now, was he pushed? Encouraged to do it by outsiders? Possibly. Possibly. Was he sitting down with Fidel Castro? No.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Sitting Down, Castro, Knows

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• Compassion makes no distinction between friends and enemies, neighbors and outsiders, compatriots and foreigners. Compassion is the gate to human community.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Compassion, Community, Enemy

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• You have to be an outsider to write.

  Martin Cruz Smith

  Writing

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