Outsiders Quotes - Page 24

• 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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• Writers are outsiders, and usually not by their own choosing. It’s why they’re writers. If they didn’t feel alienated from human experience, they wouldn’t feel so drawn to writing to make sense of their lives. It’s not the outsider’s facility for language that makes her a writer — many a student body president or homecoming queen can turn a phrase — but her ability to howl at the moon, on the page.

  Karen Karbo

  Queens, Writing, Moon

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• Sometimes I fantasize about learning to write in Khmer. Because if I could write in Khmer, my perspective would be very different, because I'm both an outsider and insider and I see the writing in a different way. My description would be different from, say, a local writer.

  Chath Piersath

  Writing, Perspective, Way

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider.

  Shawn Ashmore

  Teenager, School, Felt

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've always felt like such an outsider in this industry. Because I'm so insane I guess.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Insane, Felt, Industry

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

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• I'm an outsider. I will always be an outsider.

  Robert Crumb

  "R. Crumb, The Art of Comics No. 1". Interview with Ted Widmer, www.theparisreview.org. 2010.

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• At some point in our lives there's something about every one of us that makes us feel like an outsider, I believe.

  Lance Bass

  Believe, Feels, Our Lives

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• What the local politicians actually meant was that they hoped to claim the land in the name of the public and then make the usual profits privatizing it. There was a principle at stake. They had to ensure their friends and not outsiders got the benefit.

  Michael Moorcock

  Land, Names, Usual

  "New Worlds (No. 4)". Science fiction anthology edited by David S. Garnett with afterword by‎ Michael Moorcock, 1994.

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• The dynamism of any diverse community depends not only on the diversity itself but on promoting a sense of belonging among those who formerly would have been considered and felt themselves outsiders.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Diversity, Community, Diverse

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.163, Vintage

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• People that come to my shows are definitely people that feel outsiders. They feel like I don't feel sexy, I don't feel like - I can't go out every night on Friday and I can't connect to that, and I feel so much pressure to do that.

  Emeli Sande

  Friday, Sexy, Night

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A Nation of Outsiders is smart, insightful, and politically astute. Grace Hale's analysis of the 'romance of the outsider' is necessary reading for anyone who has ever wondered about the meaning of our national obsession with 'authenticity'-as well as for anyone who might be curious about what Jerry Falwell and Holden Caulfield have in common.

  Beth Bailey

  Smart, Reading, Romance

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• As academics we have pretty good judgment about the quality of institutions that cannot simply be measured by counting the number of papers published or patents received. Outsiders who swoop in to count beans and make up lists based on statistics have little sense of what excellence is.

  Henry Rosovsky

  Numbers, Excellence, Quality

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I often felt myself to be an outsider, which is great training for all writers.

  Karen Russell

  Training, Felt

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I always had this put-together family, and I always identified as the outsider. And that's a position where I feel most comfortable, and yet I feel an incredible longing to belong. That is really a strong feeling from my childhood - a desire to be part of a group.

  Lily King

  Strong, Childhood, Feelings

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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