Outsiders Quotes
271 quotes by 247 authors
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Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second…
— Warren G. Bennis
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One may desire a spurious respect and precedence among one's fellow monks, and the veneration of outsiders. "Both monks and laity should think it was…
— Gautama Buddha
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To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable…
— Ivars Peterson
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Many outsiders see the art world as elitist and it is, except it is also oddly down-to-earth and embracing of oddballs who don't fit in…
— Sarah Thornton
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He felt ... a suspicion-no, a conviction-than he had been abandoned, forgotten, and that no one in the whole world cared or would ever care…
— Dean Koontz
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The minute you had kids you closed ranks. You didn't plan this in advance, but it happened. Families were like individual, discrete, moated island nations.…
— Meg Wolitzer
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Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider.
— Matt Drudge
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Curious Incident is not a book about asperger's....if anything it's a novel about difference, about being an outsider, about seeing the world in a surprising…
— Mark Haddon
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An outsider's point of view is always handy.
— Pat Oliphant
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A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is established, nobody wants…
— Erich Fromm
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I'm a catalyst for change. You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around…
— Rupert Murdoch
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I want every character be an outsider in some way.
— Josh Schwartz
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You have to be an outsider to write,
— Martin Cruz Smith
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I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling…
— Lasse Hallstrom
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Im not a celebrity. I dont take myself too seriously. I know where I stand in the food chain. And no matter how much of…
— Perez Hilton
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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.
— James Wolfensohn
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Im not an American but I have always had the outsiders respect for the American people and the American way.
— Christiane Amanpour
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Marriage is a very strange thing. It’s a very public institution, it’s meant to tell the world that two people are going to live together,…
— Shashi Deshpande
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If youve ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever,…
— Tim Burton
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Occasionally they came to villages, and at each village they encountered a roadblock of fallen trees. Having had centuries of experience with the smallpox virus,…
— Richard Preston
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