Outsider Quotes
204 Outsider quotes by 190 unique authors
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I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever. I always felt like an outsider.
— Elton John
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I lived in the Republic of Ireland. I wrote a book about the North but as an outsider. The hatreds there were not mine. I…
— Colm Toibin
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If you feel like an outsider, you tend to observe things a lot more.
— Anderson Cooper
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China was the first time I truly felt like an outsider. I fell in love with the process of trying to become intimate with the…
— Abigail Washburn
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The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher Columbus notion of…
— Paul Theroux
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There was a time when I desperately wanted to be part of a Yash Chopra film, not because he was a great director, but because…
— Katrina Kaif
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I was such a wallflower in high school. I did a lot of extracurricular theatre shows, but at school, I spent a lot of time…
— Melissa Benoist
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The peculiarities of my childhood, of constantly moving through so many different cultures, of always being the outsider, may have made me extraordinarily self-sufficient, but…
— Scott Anderson
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At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is…
— Nelson Mandela
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In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.
— Ray Bradbury
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Stuart Hall was an utterly unique figure. Although he arrived at the age of 19 from Jamaica and spent the rest of his life here,…
— Martin Jacques
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Whenever a Gujarati or Sikh businessman comes to a Republican event, it begins with an appeal to Jesus Christ. While the Democrats are really good…
— Dinesh D'Souza
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Unworthiness is the inmost frightening thought that you do not belong, no matter how much you want to belong, that you are an outsider and…
— Gary Zukav
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Nothing in my background has anything to do with films. In that sense, I am a complete outsider.
— Nimrat Kaur
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I was the punk outsider who nobody messed with. I was fearless. At 16, I graduated and moved out.
— Angelina Jolie
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Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize the differences that separate him from the majority. The country…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
— Xavier Niel
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I was very, very quiet. I was always a loner, hardly spoke, and I was quite a nerd in school. So I was an outsider…
— Shahzia Sikander
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I lived in a state of rage from 12 to 20. Until college, I was beyond an outsider. I was a voyeur of life.
— Thom Mayne
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I had never had a deep sense of belonging anywhere. I always felt I was an outsider.
— Chirlane McCray
Who Wrote These Outsider Quotes
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