Outsiders Quotes

• I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

  Bill Hicks

  Bullying, Revolutionary Ideas, Creative

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• Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Change, People, Situation

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• Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have.

  Diane Abbott

  Insight, Insiders

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

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• It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Should Have, Political, Intellectual

  "Anti-Intellectualism in American Life". Book by Richard Hofstadter, pp. 145-146, 1963.

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• To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable equations and incomprehensible concepts. Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas.

  Ivars Peterson

  Math, Ideas, World

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• Before vampires were aesthetically appealing, they were physical anomalies and ostracized outsiders whom we banished to the dark, and they didn't have the appeal that they do now.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Dark, Vampire, Anomalies

  FaceBook post by Ian Somerhalder from Jun 24, 2014

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• A lot of the main characters in horror movies are outsiders as well, so that outsider syndrome reverberates within horror fans and geeky collectors. It's kind of a rallying call that brings fans and collectors together who are a little socially retarded, maybe.

  Kirk Hammett

  Character, Together, Fans

  "Metallica's Kirk Hammett discusses vintage horror and geek bonding". Interview with Kenny Herzog, www.avclub.com. October 5, 2012.

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• It's like people believe all you need to do is like the same bands in order to be soulmates. Or book. Oh my god...you like The Outsiders too...it's like we're the same person! No, we're not. It's like we have the same English teacher. There's a difference.

  John Green

  Teacher, Soulmate, Real

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• They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.

  S. E. Hinton

  Fighting, Grew Up, Grew

  "The Outsiders". Taglines, www.imdb.com. March 25, 1983.

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• It's easy to gravitate toward something negative as opposed to something positive, especially if you're an outsider.

  Blake Judd

  Negative, Easy, Ifs

  "Don't Call It a Rip-Off". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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• Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.

  Audre Lorde

  Differences, People, Rejection

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

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• I'm a drifter and an outsider. There's not one single environment I can totally belong to.

  Ang Lee

  Environment, Drifters, I Can

  "Happily dogged by controversy"by James Robinson, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2007.

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• Inside I'll always be an outsider

  Eminem

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• It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.

  S. E. Hinton

  Sunset, Class, Watches

  S.E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.42, Penguin

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• I didn't think of myself as an outsider because of my race because... where I grew up I was the same race as almost everyone else... It is true that I noticed things that no one else seemed to notice. And I think only people who are outsiders do this.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Thinking, Race, People

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• It frequently happens that when the dominant culture loses a vision or actively suppresses it, this lost knowledge arises again among those excluded from that culture.

  Kim Chernin

  Vision, Culture, Lost

  Kim Chernin (1982). “The obsession: reflections on the tyranny of slenderness”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• When you're an outsider or a misfit, if you play it smart, your motto should be, 'I'll show 'em. I will show you.'

  Wendy Williams

  Inspirational, Smart, Play

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• Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.

  S. E. Hinton

  Sunset, Two, Different

  S. E. Hinton (1995). “The Outsiders: That was Then, this is Now ; Rumble Fish”

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• Most of us don't want to be outsiders.

  Julian Fellowes

  Want

  "The Anti-Snobbery of 'Downton Abbey' by Raymond Zhong, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 3, 2013.

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• If you feel like an outsider, you tend to observe things a lot more.

  Anderson Cooper

  Feels, Ifs

  "Anderson Cooper Talks Coming Out As Gay, Brother’s Suicide And GLAAD Awards With Madonna". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 11, 2013.

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• And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside.

  Stephen King

  Osmosis, Together, Sociology

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.1187, Anchor

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• Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.

  Isabel Allende

  Book, Heart, Character

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• Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.

  Robert Frost

  Grief, Flower, Eden

  Betsy Melvin, Tom Melvin, Robert Frost (2000). “Robert Frost's New England”, p.29, UPNE

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• You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.

  Jim Hightower

  Government, Progressive, Force

  "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. April 30, 2010.

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• As an artist you actually do have to make a choice to be an outsider. If you're an outsider you have the freedom to say what people on the inside don't dare to say.

  Connie Nielsen

  Artist, People, Choices

  "Connie Neilsen proves she's no Hollywood eye candy" by Mark Tutton, edition.cnn.com. August 6, 2008.

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