Outsiders Quotes · Page 11

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

— David LaChapelle

Speaking as an outsider is the most authentic voice for a poet. Poets who have one hundred thousand or one million readers…

— Kim Hyesoon

Nepotism and outsiders are two sides of the same coin that is Bollywood. They both have to co-exist. Both have their share…

— Taapsee Pannu

I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to…

— Monica Ali

I feel like I can be myself in L.A. I feel like Mississippi is a little close-minded; not all of Mississippi is,…

— Israel Broussard

In times of shrinking expectations,... everyone feels like a victim and pushes away outsiders to defend his own corner.

— Oscar Handlin

I always felt like an outsider to the music world in a certain way. There was so much less of an art…

— Kim Gordon

One must also acknowledge that there are moments in an organisation's development when fresh blood and new vision are required, which may…

— Kofi Annan

Use your heads as you live and work among outsiders. Don't miss a trick. Make the most of every opportunity. Be gracious…

— Paul the Apostle

I feel like an outsider sometimes. Sometimes being more public makes me feel uncomfortable. I'll have people asking me for autographs in…

— Apichatpong Weerasethakul

all outcast peoples struggle to be recognized as individuals. The damage of oppression is that it robs you of your individuality. You're…

— Rita Mae Brown

I became a script writer with absolutely no idea of how to write a script whatsoever. I still feel a bit of…

— Nick Cave

I know is that the response [for Difficult People ] has been really great. I think it's for smart people. I think…

— Billy Eichner

Political parties often take advantage of denial and fear in a moment of change. This is a well understood phenomenon that often…

— Graciela Chichilnisky

I'm mostly coming at the superhero legends as an outsider, I know them and I studied them but I didn't really grow…

— Eric Kripke

I believe strongly that a group's potential is eventually limited by the strength of its leadership. I'm an outsider, but it still…

— Eric Sink

We have the ability to craft a life where we are completely fulfilled. We think it is dependent on outsiders, and to…

— Srikumar Rao

I think it's hard for an outsider to capture the flavor of a community and all its nuances, so ultimately Haitian-Americans need…

— Edwidge Danticat

For me, Will being gay or not is besides the point. 'Stranger Things' is a show about a bunch of kids who…

— Noah Schnapp

I always feel like a bit of an outsider myself, but as a working class lad, the system was always against me.…

— John Lydon

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…

— Kevin Sessums

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

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

— David Steinberg

The vampire is an outsider. He's the perfect metaphor for those things. He's someone who looks human and sounds human, but is…

— Anne Rice

There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so, but behind locked…

— Salman Rushdie

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,…

— David Shrigley

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

— Kristen Johnston

Donald Trump's staffing up a pretty traditional, very conservative Republican government, not a populist outsider government, at least not yet.

— Mara Liasson

If we look at the complexity of the challenges facing western societies today, we see that the problems are not really about…

— Mariana Mazzucato

Every new refugee to a society, whether it's the United States or some other place, is subjected to fear. They are the…

— Nguyen Viet Thang

The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and…

— James Russell Lowell

“As empaths, our high level of sensitivity means that we are prone to feeling like eternal outsiders who are in the world…

— Aletheia Luna

It feels great to not be the acne-ridden outsider that I felt like when I was in high school. It's a lot…

— Chris Pine

It's easy to gravitate toward something negative as opposed to something positive, especially if you're an outsider.

— Blake Judd

There are many outsiders that actively try to halt every natural resource development project in Alaska. Many of these same people have…

— Lisa Murkowski

I'm definitely drawn to stories about outsiders. Feeling like that myself as a gay black man, I often seek to give a…

— Roger Ross Williams

I always play outsiders. I think I'm carrying a lot of those characters and I wonder if I play them because those…

— Zawe Ashton

Outsiders have the intuitive ability to continually view problems in fresh ways and to identify ineffective practices and traditions.

— John P. Kotter

I guess they often cast me as the bad guy, because I'm not, er, conventional looking. I look sort of violent. I'm…

— Willem Dafoe

I saw my parents, as immigrants, try and try and try to take root and get ahead and so yes, 'Sweat' resonates…

— Carlo Alban