Outsiders Quotes

• all outcast peoples struggle to be recognized as individuals. The damage of oppression is that it robs you of your individuality. You're just a faggot. Or whatever - fill in the blank. Everything you do is seen through the prism of your gayness or your womanness or your blackness by some people.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • People
  • Struggle
  • Discrimination

• If you're a little mouseburger, come with me. I was a mouseburger and I will help you. You're so much more wonderful than you think. Cosmopolitan is shot full of this stuff although outsiders don't realize it. It is, in its way, an inspiration magazine.

  

  Helen Gurley Brown
  • Inspiration
  • Helping
  • Littles

• I'm a drifter and an outsider. There's not one single environment I can totally belong to.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Single
  • Environment
  • I Can

• To the people here, we are outsiders. Foreigners.

  

  Roberto Clemente
  • People
  • Here
  • Foreigners

• Change can only come from local citizens and politicians - it cannot be imposed by well-meaning foreigners - not least because a society like Afghanistan or Iraq is suspicious of outsiders and often resistant to change. I am not going to get drawn into the ethics of intervening in other countries. My concern is the practical question. Can you actually achieve change in this way? My guess is we can stop wars sometimes as in the Balkans and topple regimes - but that the other stuff - such as corruption is not within our power to effect and alter.

  

  Rory Stewart
  • Country
  • War
  • Sometimes

• The subject of an outsider who becomes obsessed.

  

  Wes Anderson
  • Obsessed
  • Subjects
  • Outsiders

• I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to do as a writer, I suppose.

  

  Monica Ali
  • Trying
  • Needs
  • Figures

• I'm seeing myself as an outsider a little bit - definitely when I started the band. I knew what band's name meant and nobody else really did, so I'd be on stage every night and say, "Hello, we're Art Brut" - basically saying that we were rejects. But I mean, I didn't really sing, it did feel a bit like we were outsiders. It was a bit tongue-in-cheek when I first named the band that, but then we slowly turned into that - like a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  

  Eddie Argos
  • Art
  • Night
  • Mean

• I guess they often cast me as the bad guy, because I'm not, er, conventional looking. I look sort of violent. I'm the odd one out, the outsider.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Guy
  • Violent
  • Odd

• I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.

  

  Ethel Waters
  • Felt
  • Outsiders

• We as outsiders can't differentiate between Sunni and Shi'ah, but leave it to them and they'll get over the difficulty by some kind of hanky panky, just as the Turks did, and for the present it's the only way of getting over it. I don't for a moment doubt that the final authority must be in the hands of the Sunnis, in spite of their numerical inferiority; otherwise you will have a mujtahid-run, theocratic state, which is the very devil.

  

  Gertrude Bell
  • Running
  • Doubt
  • Authority

• I see the Koran very much as an outsider. It stands in the great prophetic tradition of trying to return people to the basic principles of spirituality. Taken for its time, it was an extraordinarily progressive declaration of principle. It is also extraordinary for a Christian to read: for example, there are more references to Mary than in the Gospels. The tragedy is that it has been so warped and misapplied.

  

  Tony Blair
  • People
  • Trying
  • Taken

• Prague is not, strictly speaking, travel writing but it is, among other things, an excellent example of what travel writing is becoming, if indeed it hasn't already done so. . . . People are no longer so easily satisfied by the mere travel impressions of some outsider much like themselves. Instead they gravitate towards writers who actually have lived not simply in, but inside, a location for an extended period, as one lives inside one's clothes.

  

  George Fetherling
  • People
  • Impression
  • Satisfied

• Government endorsement . . . of religion . . . sends a message to nonadherents that they are outsiders, not full members of the political community, and an accompanying message to adherents that they are insiders, favored members of the political community.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Political
  • Community
  • Church

• Every politician just has to remember how he got his position in the first place. A young candidate running for Congress or any outsider interested in public office could only achieve his goals by relying on soft power. They could not force anyone to vote for them. They needed to convince their potential voters, they needed to do fundraising, they needed to be attractive candidates.

  

  Joseph Nye
  • Remember
  • Running
  • Goal

• I'm truly an outsider in the poetry world. When I started writing, I was trying to move my poems away from modernist lines.

  

  Richard Grossman
  • Writing
  • Moving
  • Outsiders

• 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
  • Names
  • Principles
  • Politician

• ...I use primal imagery, so maybe it's fitting that I use the most primitive of cameras pinhole cameras. Since there's no viewfinder, the image is much more of a surprise - as if some outsider came and looked at earth for the first time.

  

  Barbara Ess
  • Earth
  • Surprise
  • Cameras

• I've always felt kind of like an outsider, even when I was very successful back in the old days. Even then. I kind of enjoyed it, really.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Kind
  • Successful
  • Felt

• Our sense of safety depends on predictability, so anything living outside the usual rules we suspect to be an outlaw, a ghoul.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Safety
  • Predictability
  • Outlaw

• The endeavor of being a foreign correspondent means that you will never be their equal. And that has its pros and cons. Were you to be an insider in a particular society, then you would be one of them, and the way you would write about that society would be very different. When you're brought up in a certain way, you have certain blind spots to the things going on in your culture. There is an illumination the outsider brings to a place or a situation that cannot be duplicated.

  

  Anjan Sundaram
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Culture

• Later in life, suddenly, if you're an outsider, it's something to be celebrated, I think, rather than getting on people's nerves.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Outsiders

• The world is an unsafe place today because of his failed leadership, not because of anything Donald Trump has done. I mean, the American people are going to be reminded over and over in this election that these baseless charges by Obama and by Clinton are against man who has been the outsider, not the establishment.

  

  Paul Manafort
  • World
  • Today
  • Election

• I'm not a media darling. I'm forever the outsider, for whatever the reason is.

  

  Russell Peters
  • Reason
  • Forever
  • Media

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