Outsiders Quotes - Page 15

• Francis [Ford Coppola] was on the cover of Time Magazine for One From The Heart and for owning a studio, and he was fresh off of Apocalypse [Now] and The Godfather films, so he was at the absolute top of his game and legend [in The Outsiders ].

  Rob Lowe

  Heart, Games, Magazines

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We were German-Americans in a British colony, so we were outsiders.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  British, Colony

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• It really helps a comedian to be an outsider.

  John Oliver

  Comedian, Helping

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• Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Dad, Reading, School

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• In preseason camp, there are no friends. when newcomers arrive trying to take not only your job, but maybe your best friend's job, you work together to try to help each other. Everyone is an outsider until you're given a uniform.

  Sue Wicks

  Friends, Jobs, Together

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• I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.

  Paloma Faith

  People, Interesting, Stories

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• The outsider may indeed wonder at this seeming much ado about nothing. What a tempest in a tea-cup! he will say. But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Tea, May, Cups

  Okakura Kakuzo (2000). “The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition”, p.30, Tuttle Publishing

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• I know I touch a lot of people. I don't call myself a role model. But I am a leader. Leaders are always watched by team members & outsiders

  Spoken Reasons

  Team, People, Role Models

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• I think being funny had something to do with feeling like an outsider, not feeling cool - insecurity.

  Kumail Nanjiani

  Thinking, Feelings, Insecurity

  "Kumail Nanjiani Can Totally Relate to His Character on HBO’s 'Silicon Valley'". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. January 2016.

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• I've always felt like my nose is pressed to glass. I always feel a little bit like an outsider.

  Dani Shapiro

  Glasses, Noses, Littles

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.

  Sade Adu

  Thinking, Feels, Insiders

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• I loved every minute of my childhood - sunbathing on the fire escape, digging for buried treasure in the back yard, pulling alewives out of the sand... Then it was all taken away from me. I came back every summer to visit my father until I was 18, but I was always the outsider.

  Jennifer Egan

  Summer, Father, Taken

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• I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

  Ethan Embry

  School, Thinking, Trying

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

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• I was a complete outsider in high school.

  Karen O

  School, High School

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

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• As teenagers, we all see ourselves as outsiders... and it's very easy to look at other people who are more popular, who have more pocket money, and it makes you feel even more like an outsider, and it does shape who you become as a person.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Teenager, People, Pockets

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• I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16; I wasn't interested in high school at all and figured that college might be more entertaining.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Home, School, College

  Interview with Laura Rosenfeld, www.seventeen.com. September 01, 2011.

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• There are many countries where you can only believe more or you can believe less. But in the United States we have this incredible smorgasbord, and it really interests me why people are drawn to one faith rather than another, especially to a system of belief that to an outsider seems absurd or dangerous.

  Lawrence Wright

  Country, Believe, People

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• The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Kids, White, Guy

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

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• As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.

  Ben Mendelsohn

  America, Hypocrisy, Kind

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• I've always been interested in writing from the perspective of an outsider.

  Isaac Marion

  Writing, Perspective

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• Art is an outsider, a gypsy over the face of the earth.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Faces, Gypsy

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Historically different groups find different things in each comics, as with *X-Men*. Gay readers find parallels to living a closeted lifestyle or choosing to come out and be openly gay. Black readers find a relevance to their lives growing up in America as a black guy. Picked-on brainy kids find a metaphor for being an outsider. It's a simple enough, and direct enough metaphor that it has different shades for different people. And so each reader to some degree gets out of it what they bring to it. That's one of the things I think that makes *X-Men* such a strong property.

  Tom Brevoort

  Strong, Growing Up, Kids

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• No chord in populism reverberates more strongly than the notion that the robust common sense of an unstained outsider is the best medicine for an ailing polity. Caligula doubtless got big cheers from the plebs when he installed his horse as proconsul.

  Alexander Cockburn

  Horse, Cheer, Medicine

  "Obama's Speech; McCain's Palinomy" by Alexander Cockburn, www.counterpunch.org. August 30, 2008.

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• Planning a wedding is hell. Things are said. Doors are slammed. Quarrels about the most inconsequential things--yellow tablecloths or white? hors d'oeuvres set out on tables or passed around on trays?--are often pitched at such a level that it seems the combatants may never recover from them. Much of the anxiety, of course, is tribal. It is wrenching to have to open the sacred circle to admit an outsider.

  Caitlin Flanagan

  Doors, Circles, Yellow

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• The success [of the X-Men], I think, is for two reasons. The first is that, creatively, the book was close to perfect ... but the other reason is that it was a book about being different in a culture where, for the first time in the West, being different wasn't just accepted, but was also fashionable. I don't think it's a coincidence that gay rights, black rights, the empowerment of women and political correctness all happened over those twenty years and a book about outsiders trying to be accepted was almost the poster-boy for this era in American culture.

  Mark Millar

  Book, Gay, Men

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