Outsiders Quotations

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

You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.

An outsider's point of view is always handy.

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have.

I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.

As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.

I've always been interested in writing from the perspective of an outsider.

People who are feeling bullied and people who feel like outsiders should talk to their parents and guardians about finding a place with likeminded people where they can feel accepted. That's what I needed, and that's what I found with musical theater.

For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority of blacks, the heritage of slavery, overpopulation - for why Haiti remains the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.

Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.

The bands you like and know that are French are always outsiders in the French music industry - Daft Punk, Air.

I never felt cool growing up. I was a bit of an outsider, but I discovered theatre very early on, which got me through.

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

To the people here, we are outsiders. Foreigners.

I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group.

The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do.

I always felt like something of an outsider. But I identified with people up on the screen. That made me feel like I wanted to be up on the screen too. I felt like eventually I would get there.

I am not looking to be understood or liked. Like me or not, I don't care. I am an outsider, that is the way I was brought up.

I was a complete outsider in high school.

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

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

Everyone's a geek in some way or other. Everyone's an outsider.

Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.

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

I was quite the quiet teenager. I was a bit of a loner, a little bit of an outsider.

I literally felt like a freak, which is another aspect of the role of Sally that I relate to: total outsider.

Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.

I'm Egyptian and Muslim, but I grew up in the West, far from my Arab roots. I began 'Sex and the Citadel' to help outsiders - like myself - to better comprehend this pivotal part of the world, up-close and personal.

When you feel like an outsider - for whatever reason - you spend a lot of time alone.

The subject of an outsider who becomes obsessed.

Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.

Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions. But, precisely because they are outsiders, they are usually in a poor position to fix them.

I do feel like an outsider, but I don't lose any sleep over it.

I've always been an outsider; a displaced person.

In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life to keep on the move. Travel is natural.

It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like. Maybe that will always keep me an outsider, I don't know. But that's fine.

Great Canadian comics are often outsiders and insiders at the same time. That's a great perspective for a comedian.

I grew up in Oregon so I grew up around reservations, so I've always kind of had this knowledge. Not a tremendous amount of knowledge, but an outsider's knowledge of what reservation life was like.

If you feel like an outsider, you tend to observe things a lot more.

I don't feel the pressure by outsiders. I'm not someone who's easily influenced by the public.

I was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.

I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.

It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.

I know what it feels like to be an outsider.

Before vampires were aesthetically appealing, they were physical anomalies and ostracized outsiders whom we banished to the dark, and they didn't have the appeal that they do now.

I was the punk outsider who nobody messed with. I was fearless. At 16, I graduated and moved out.

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

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

I feel like my friends are in a cult because we're like, 'No outsiders!

Like many great world faiths, Mormonism has an important strand of sacred mystery. Mormon temples have traditionally been closed to outsiders and designed with opaque windows.

I'm in nobody's circle, I've always been an outsider.

When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set.

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

I think a lot of people in their lives feel like they don't fit in, even if it looks like they do. People feel like outsiders even if others think we, the lives we live, have everything. If they are popular or they have everything they are supposed to have. Even then, people still don't feel quite included.

In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

I know that Oswald killed Kennedy. Now, was he pushed? Encouraged to do it by outsiders? Possibly. Possibly. Was he sitting down with Fidel Castro? No.

I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

As a kid I just felt like an outsider.

There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.

We believe we have got a lot of improvement to make yet which is good for us internally but outsiders have got an over-inflated opinion where we are at.

Working on 'NYPD Blue' and '24', those two series, I did full runs on those. It's great work, but everything has to align. The producers have to want you; the network has to want you; there has to be great writing; and it's not as easy as it may appear to the outsiders to make all those things align.

But you're like me,” he says. “An outsider. Different. A freak. We're both weird, which is why we get along.

I've never wanted to be part of an inner circle of any scene. I've always been an outsider looking to question and subvert.

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

I've always been interested in the outsider.

Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.

I've just always been a fan of really fringy, outsider things, and I've always been a balloon in the wind, in terms of where that takes me.

I've been an outsider all my life - I don't care.

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If an outsider perceives 'something wrong' with a core scientific model, the humble and justified response of that curious outsider should be to ask 'what mistake am I making?' before assuming 100% of the experts are wrong.

It was very difficult to write about my own country, because I have always been the outsider looking in.

I love playing outsiders, I always do.

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."

But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong.

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

Being an outsider to some extent, someone who does not "fit in" with others or is rejected by them for whatever reason, makes life difficult, but it also places you at an advantage as far as enlightenment is concerned. It takes you out of unconsciousness almost by force.

A society is a group whose members have more relationships with one another then they do with outsiders.

Now, rather than former outsiders having a big voice in the company, it will become more of a meritocracy.

One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and become dissatisfied with their lives. What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Piraha.

From an outsiders point of view, you're graded on whether you score or not. But that's not true with coaches and teammates. It's also a matter of what I do away from the goal to help the team. I've never focused on just scoring goals. My goal has been to be a good teammate and help out defensively whenever I can.

There is an increasing process of consolidation that's taking place around the industry. Globally, we've been seeing the buildup of these great alliances ... And I think outsiders have been expecting this in the U.S. domestic industry for some time.

I think the new reality that's converging all this is, you have on the one end this culture of extraordinarily gifted outsiders who have patched together the Internet. And then there's the rest of the world -- business, education and politics -- that suddenly has woken up to the fact that they desperately need the Internet. It's very important. And so they become sort of central while still not being in the mainstream.

I think we noticed it as a coaching staff, and the players realized we needed the role players to do their job in order to be successful. I don't know if outsiders realized how truly valuable they were, but we did.

Over the last decade, he has continued to have discussions on it, and most recently constitutional questions have been raised about outsiders looking at the ethics process.

Surprisingly few outsiders know about the Cuckmere Valley, and it is not uncommon for people to confuse Alfriston with Alfreton in the Derbyshire Peak District.

Local people have to make monetary and fiscal spending in order to attract outsiders to do the same thing. There is still plenty of land available.

The ACLU believes prayer before meetings is divisive. It can make some feel like outsiders before their own government.

Most of their other experience with outsiders involved atrocities.

Willingness to embrace scrutiny from outsiders is a hallmark of well-managed companies. You don't invite Lincoln Almond into your house if you have something to hide.

Well, we can't control that, just as we can't control outsiders gambling on our games.

The outsiders might second-guess this, but we didn't quit. Until the very end, we gave it all out there. Give the Panthers credit. They played well. We didn't, but it wasn't lack of effort.

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

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

What I was interested in is the lens organizing my sovereign space. I avoid the term outsider and also exile for the same reason. Outsider implies a kind of nobility.

An outsider can see some things much better.

Sometimes it takes an outsider, someone with fresh eyes to see the truth.

There is no place on earth, no day or night, no hour or minute, when one is not a Jew or a woman.

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.