Outsiders Quotes - Page 21

• Race is a universal flaw in humanity. So yes, I've been in many situations where I've felt like the outsider because of the color of my skin.

  Jordan Peele

  Race, Color, Humanity

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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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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• 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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• I was an insurgent. I was, you know, an outsider. And I'm not sure that I'm not better being an outsider.

  Donald Trump

  Not Sure, Knows, Insurgent

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.

  Elia Kazan

  Struggle, People, Get Up

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• A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leadership, Spiritual, Educational

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• It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.

  Alan Cumming

  Thinking, Feels, Hard

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• I was one of I think three white girls in my school. So, I was very much an outsider. And plus I was Jewish and all of my friends were black and Baptist because they listen to the coolest music. We were all listening to Ray Charles and what was then called race music.

  Janis Ian

  Girl, School, Thinking

  "Janis Ian's Controversial 'Society's Child'". "News and Notes" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. March 2, 2009.

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• I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Groups, Members, Feels

  "In the Director’s Chair: Baz Luhrmann". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. December 6, 2010.

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• Metal is the feeling of being an outsider, but still being part of something huge.

  Brian Posehn

  Feelings, Metals, Stills

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• The one [thing about Amish life] that I'm always going to miss is the closeness that I've had with my family. I still talk to them, but I'm an outsider.

  Kate Stoltzfus

  Missing, Amish, My Family

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• I think the second, or outsider's, perspective can come as you layer a story. It's as though you've grabbed a secondary character and asked them, "What do you make of this guy?" and the hope is that the answer surprises you as the writer.

  Tom Barbash

  Character, Thinking, Perspective

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think that "Arabs coming out in droves" is so violative Jewish values that non-Jews admire so much about Jewish people throughout history, of welcoming the stranger, of standing up for the outsider, of defending the marginalized. This was classic us against them. This was the narrowest and meanest of politics, to which Jews, sadly and tragically, around the world have been subjected to.

  Mark Shields

  Thinking, Jewish Values, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think outsiders sometimes produce the best fictional perspectives on reality because they're set apart from it, so they have a unique view from the border.

  Christopher Rice

  Unique, Reality, Thinking

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• The establishment isn't new. The establishment not wanting outsiders, not wanting conservatives, isn't anything new.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Establishment

  "Rush Limbaugh on rift that threatens the Republican Party; Mitt Romney talks Trump attack, future of the GOP". "Fox News Sunday", www.foxnews.com. March 6, 2016.

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