Outsiders Quotes - Page 20

• My natural state is an outsider. I've always felt outside the group, and I've always been analyzing the group.

  Michael Burry

  Analyzing, Groups, Natural

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• Playing in (the Neurotic Outsiders) with John Taylor was great. A lot of pussy every time we played a gig. So many chicks. It was, like, 'Wow, John, really? So this is what it was like, huh?' And there would be like a couple guys with mohawks and a guy with, like, a jean jacket coming in to see me and Jonesy!

  Duff McKagan

  Couple, Guy, Pussy

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• It seems to me that this debate, whether Islam is a religion of peace or not, really, it's irrelevant for outsiders. It's for Muslims to decide whether it's a religion of peace or not.

  Chuck Todd

  Islam, Debate, Seems

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I always felt like an outsider to the music world in a certain way. There was so much less of an art culture in L.A. - and particularly in the South Bay.

  Kim Gordon

  Art, Culture, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I was growing up, all I wanted to do was fit in, but if you're perpetually an outsider, it gives you a perspective that might have a little more objectivity than people who really feel connected to their social environment in which they grow up.

  Moby

  Growing Up, Objectivity, Perspective

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• The real freedom comes to us when we can learn to go inside and connect with that voice. Then, we're not relying on outsiders.

  Echo Bodine

  Real, Voice, Real Freedom

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Each of us is precious to God because each of us has their name written on the palms of God's hands. And God says there are no outsiders - black, white, yellow, short, tall, young, old, rich, poor, gay, lesbian, straight - everyone. All belong. And God says, I have only you to help me realize my dream. Help me.

  Desmond Tutu

  Dream, Gay, Hands

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• Bernie Sanders campaign supporters feel that he is an outsider to the party, he`s not a Democrat, that he was unfairly treated, and the chair, you know, whether they admit it or not, they are on Hillary Clinton`s side.

  Joy-Ann Reid

  Party, Sides, Campaigns

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I think it's hard for an outsider to capture the flavor of a community and all its nuances, so ultimately Haitian-Americans need to start sharing intimate accounts of their stories.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Thinking, Community, Nuance

  "Edwidge Danticat: The “Create Dangerously” Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. November 23, 2010.

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• Washington D.C.! Congress is full of self-declared outsiders.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Self, Congress

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

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• Outsider means "I will accept the possibility that I don't have responsibility for what is happening inside my domain."

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Responsibility, Mean, Possibility

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

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• I love outsider stories. And I also like a lot of genre fiction, too. So I wanted to write a literary book that flirted with thriller and fantasy and even science fiction. I wanted the coming-of-age story and the love story to be about "outsiderdom" - one of the themes I am most interested in.

  Porochista Khakpour

  Book, Writing, Age

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've always been an outsider kid. But I had always wanted to be in a group - growing up, I loved bands like the Cranberries and K's Choice.

  Dawn Angelique

  Growing Up, Kids, Choices

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• One of the things we love about Po [Kung Fu Panda] is that he's vulnerable. He's someone that we can all identify with because he has those insecurities. He's an outsider feeling guy.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Guy, Feelings, Insecurity

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• And with this sort of increased visibility, there's more money going around in the industry, and it changes a lot, in terms of who gets into the business as a creator, who sticks with it, and who gets pushed out. And I do think it's sort of too bad that what once was a safe haven for truly eccentric, outsider artists is no longer that thing. But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.

  Adrian Tomine

  Artist, Safe Haven, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I wouldn't consider myself an outsider artist because I have a university degree in painting.

  Marcel Dzama

  Artist, University Degrees, Painting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The feeling of being an outsider, and the identity theme, are hardwired into me. If there's anything really autobiographical in my fiction, it's that feeling. I always feel that way.

  Dan Chaon

  Feelings, Identity, Fiction

  "The Rumpus Interview With Dan Chaon". Interview with Molly Antopol, therumpus.net. September 15, 2009.

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• I'd be the outsider gal who undergoes a makeover in the end [in the 'The Breakfast Club' ].

  Greta Salpeter

  Breakfast, Clubs, Gals

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• The neoconservatives are a small circle, and they're all sort of holding hands as they develop their policy, and outsiders aren't allowed. If you agree with the guys on the inside, you're a genius. If you disagree, you're a traitor, a pariah, you're an apostate, and you're not allowed in.

  Seymour Hersh

  Hands, Circles, Guy

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I tend to write about people. I look at things from the bottom up and from the perspective of outsiders. A part of me just identifies with them. It's my messed up internal nature that I always feel like an outsider. It's just my nature. At film festivals, I was an outsider for sure, but I always felt like one as well. I have that feeling at parties, too. I don't belong there.

  Alex Kotlowitz

  Party, Writing, People

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I think I gravitate towards characters who are slight outsiders. It's fun to play a character that wants so badly to be included in the normal activities of teenage life, but lacks the literal hardware to do it.

  Zach Woods

  Fun, Teenage, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• At the end of the day, if I do a set at a festival and I only have an hour, which is kind of short for a DJ set, I know that I have to play at least six of my songs. Then the whole challenge is what do I weave around that. How do I stand out? Because at a festival there's probably fifteen songs every DJ's going to play every hour, for the whole day. That to me is more interesting, because I still feel like an outsider in this world.

  A-Trak

  Song, Play, Interesting

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I was a bit of an outsider in the hip-hop world because I was a scratch kid and people weren't necessarily trying to hear that all the time.

  A-Trak

  Kids, People, Hip Hop

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I guess I always think of myself as more of the people. I always feel like a bit of an outsider.

  Jeremy Scott

  Thinking, People, Feels

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Great performers in all fields seem immune to what outsiders think about them. Their sense of themselves never depends on the feedback-positive or negative-they get from the environment.

  John Eliot

  Thinking, Self Love, Achievement

  John Eliot (2006). “Overachievement: The New Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, Portfolio (Hardcover)

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