Outsiders Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• You get tough like me and you don't get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothin' can touch you.

  S. E. Hinton

  Hurt, Looks, Tough

  S.E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.117, Penguin

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• let's do it for Johnny

  S. E. Hinton

  S. E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.175, Penguin

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• Things were rough all over, but it was better that way. That way you could tell the other guy was human too.

  S. E. Hinton

  Guy, Way, Rough

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

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• You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don't think he knows.

  S. E. Hinton

  Thinking, World, Want

  S.E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.141, Penguin

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• Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.

  S. E. Hinton

  Gold, Socs

  S.E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.118, Penguin

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• When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.

  S. E. Hinton

  Movie, Home, Two

  The Outsiders ch. 1 (1967)

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• It seemed funny that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two 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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• I've always been an ironic dreamer, unfaithful to my inner promises. Like a complete outsider, a casual observer of whom I thought I was, I've always enjoyed watching my daydreams go down in defeat. I was never convinced of what I believed in. I filled my hands with sand, called it gold, and opened them up to let it slide through. Words were my only truth. When the right words were said, all was done; the rest was the sand that had always been.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Hands, Dreamer, Ironic

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.201, Penguin UK

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• Sixteen years on the streets and you can learn a lot. But all the wrong things, not the things you want to learn. Sixteen years on the streets and you see a lot. But all the wrong sights, not the things you want to see.

  S. E. Hinton

  Life, Sight, Years

  S. E. Hinton (2012). “The Outsiders”, p.84, Penguin

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• I've been thinking about it, and that poem, that guy that wrote it, he meant you're gold when you're a kid, like green. When you're a kid everything's new, dawn. It's just when you get used to everything that it's day. Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That's gold. Keep that way, it's a good way to be.

  S. E. Hinton

  Sunset, Kids, Thinking

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• I am a greaser. I am a JD and a hood. I blacken the name of our fair city. I beat up people. I rob gas stations. I am a menace to society. Man do I have fun!

  S. E. Hinton

  Fun, Men, Cities

  S.E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.109, Penguin

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• ...I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.

  S. E. Hinton

  Would Be, Wanted

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

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• Every religion seems like a fantasy to outsiders, but as holy truth to those of the faith.

  Isaac Asimov

  Fear, Atheism, Fantasy

  Isaac Asimov (1989). “The Tyrannosaurus Prescription and 100 Other Essays”

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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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• 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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• No matter where you are, you're always a bit on your own, always an outsider.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Travel, Inspire, Matter

  Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (2002). “Goodbye Tsugumi”, p.51, Grove Press

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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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• The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and intensified the contempt and hostility aroused by his physical defects. Which in turn increased his sense of being alien and alone. A chronic fear of being slighted made him avoid his equals, made him stand, where his inferiors were concerned, self-consciously on his dignity.

  Aldous Huxley

  Self, Feelings, Prejudice

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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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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