Outsiders Quotes - Page 23

• I travel with a boom box. When I get on a plane, I stuff the power cord for the boom box into the battery compartment. From an outsider's point of view, it looks like I've got it all wrong.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Views

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• A thing we always talk about in today's culture is that nobody is an outsider - everybody's kind of a hipster on the inside.

  Chris Stein

  Hipster, Culture, Today

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• I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider. If I was offered anything like the Nobel Prize for Literature, I'd find it an extremely difficult conflict because I'd be basically disinclined to accept.

  Colin Wilson

  Literature, Conflict, Accepting

  Interview with Paul Newman, Abraxas Unbound #7,

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• So, if I ever played Napoleon it would be with an Italian accent. He was an outsider, which also interests me.

  David Suchet

  Italian, Would Be, Accents

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I came from another county. I spent 15 years in Wells, but I was treated like an outsider. It was like, "Oh, you're not local."

  Edgar Wright

  Years, Wells, County

  "Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, and Edgar Wright of Hot Fuzz". Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. April 18, 2007.

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• I don't know many people who don't have somebody in their family who's a part of the gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender community. It's not like they're aliens or outsiders. This is family.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Gay, Bisexual, People

  Interview with Alan Cumming, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 26, 2009.

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• I think comedy is an angry art form; it's an outsider art form. Anger and comedy are really connected. If I'm angry about something I will try to think about something funny about it to lighten the load of the anger and cope with the anger.

  Margaret Cho

  Art, Thinking, Trying

  "Margaret Cho: Laugh Lines". Interview with Katie Halper, www.guernicamag.com. June 15, 2015.

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• Most writers begin with accounts of their first home, their family, and the town, often from quite a hostile point of view-love/hate, let's say. In a way, this stepping outside, in an attempt to judge enough to create a duplicate of it, makes you an outsider. . . . I think it's healthy for a writer to feel like an outsider. If you feel like an insider you get committed to a partisan view, you begin to defend interests, so you wind up not really empathizing with all mankind.

  John Updike

  Hate, Home, Thinking

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• It's insulting when outsiders come in and tell a traumatized people what it will take for them to heal... People who have lived through a terrible conflict may be hungry and desperate, but they are not stupid. They often have very good ideas about how peace can evolve, and they need to be asked. That includes women. Most especially women.

  Leymah Gbowee

  Stupid, Ideas, People

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• The incentive for the outsider is to attack the system right up to the moment he is co-opted by it. The incentive for the insider -and this took some getting used to- is to allow yourself to be attacked, and then co-opt your most ferocious attackers, and their best ideas. The effect on the system as a whole is to make it more stable, because everyone winds up working on its behalf.

  Michael Lewis

  Wind, Ideas, Incentives

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• I don't like the vulgarity of Oscars weekend, but it's also sweet. It's prom weekend for anyone who didn't experience the real prom: the nerds, gay, arty outsiders. Hollywood is high school with money.

  Kevin Sessums

  Sweet, Real, School

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started to write my own books. I never thought of myself as wanting to be a writer-I just was one.

  Ann Hood

  Growing Up, Reading, Book

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• The gods we make in our own image are tribal gods. They tell you how very, very little you should tolerate outsiders, who are less favoured of the Lord. Amazingly, there are no recorded cases of the holy man going up the mountain and finding that it's the others who are right. It always turns out that God wants unbelievers to suffer, and what could be more noble than to help him a little? When religion rules, toleration disappears, for you cannot cherish the verdict of death to the infidels, yet also tolerate those who disagree - for those are the very same infidels.

  Simon Blackburn

  Men, Suffering, Mountain

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• I'm definitely not an outsider artist. I'm very much an insider artist. I get written about in art magazines, and I'm not, like, in a mental institution. I'm a regular guy who went to art school.

  David Shrigley

  Art, School, Guy

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• I believe strongly that a group's potential is eventually limited by the strength of its leadership. I'm an outsider, but it still looks to me like the leadership in the Java w orld is Fouled Up Beyond ALL Recognition. Java ISVs don't know whether to listen to Mom or Dad. Everybody knows IBM should just buy Sun and clean up the mess. When are they going to do it?

  Eric Sink

  Mom, Dad, Believe

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• The English were infuriating. Everything was designed to put an outsider at a disadvantage. If you had to ask, you didn't belong.

  Daisy Goodwin

  Infuriating, Disadvantages, Asks

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• I think that part of being a good journalist, part of being an awake member of the world youre in, is to view yourself as an outsider, and I always have, to some degree.

  Mark Leibovich

  Thinking, Views, Degrees

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• Interpretations of Muslim assimilation have gravitated between two arguments: that Muslims will remain as permanent outsiders or that Muslims will blend in with little difficulty at all. Mucahit Bilici demonstrates how wanting these arguments are. Finding Mecca in America takes us into the uncharted territory of what it is actually like to be Muslim immigrants in the United States. I am especially impressed by the study's theoretical depth and empirical insights.

  Robert Wuthnow

  Two, America, Depth

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• When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Self Confidence, Skills

  "Africa Can Live Up to its Promise" by Bill Gates, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 10, 2011.

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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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