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To the people here, we are outsiders. Foreigners. -- Roberto Clemente
The subject of an outsider who becomes obsessed. -- Wes Anderson
If you feel like an outsider, you tend to observe things a lot more. -- Anderson Cooper
When I was young, no one wanted to be one; now even the President of the United States would call himself an outsider. So now I'm for insiders. -- John Waters
At some point in our lives there's something about every one of us that makes us feel like an outsider, I believe. -- Lance Bass
I didn't think of myself as an outsider because of my race because ... where I grew up I was the same race as almost everyone else ... It is true that I noticed things that no one else seemed to notice. And I think only people who are outsiders do this. -- Jamaica Kincaid
I have the outsider's vision, which is creating wisdom I can share with the world. The fact that I am misunderstood has always given me an added impetus to work on communication to bridge the gap. -- Yoko Ono
We often take for granted the notion that some people are insiders, while others are outsiders. But such a notion is a social contrivance, that, like virtually every public construct, is a legacy of a primordial and tribal mentality. -- Jamake Highwater
People have asked me about playing outsiders. I don't consider myself an outsider. Maybe that's why I'm interested in that. I'm not really sure. -- Paul Dano
I am interested in outsiders. I suppose I have always felt like one myself. -- Rebecca Pidgeon
I've always been a sort of self-imposed outsider, not a geeky outsider or a snobby outsider but, I just have a natural desire to live on the fringe. I'm not like a weirdo with a trench-coat but I just prefer to be alone or minimally surrounded by people. -- Sara Quin
I think, at the end of the day, I have an outsider's heart. -- Tift Merritt
To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England. -- Edie Campbell
The question of the stranger in a society which estranges everybody from it
while forcing everybody to assimilate their own alienation
takes cover under dubious and sinister masks. -- Norman Manea
No matter where you are, you're always a bit on your own, always an outsider. -- Banana Yoshimoto
I do feel like an outsider, but I don't lose any sleep over it. -- Mark E. Smith
I've felt like an outsider. I've had to struggle. -- Peter Dinklage
I'm fundamentally, I think, an outsider. I do my best work and feel most braced with my back to the wall. It's an odd feeling though, writing aginst the current: difficult entirely to disregard the current. Yet of course I shall. -- Virginia Woolf
Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have. -- Diane Abbott
I was a complete outsider in high school. -- Karen O
I've always been an outsider. When I did magic, I was the only kid. When I worked with Johnny Cash, I was completely out of place in Nashville. And when I started Def Jam, I was the only white guy in the hip-hop world. -- Rick Rubin
I am a stranger in this world, and there is a severe solitude and painful lonesomeness in my exile. -- Kahlil Gibran
The thing about being an outsider ... is that it teaches you to hear what people are thinking because you're constantly looking for the people who just don't give a damn. -- Mike Nichols
I feel like my life experience is that of an outsider. Let me explain: my parents are from Panama, and they moved to the United States the year after I was born. They moved into an all-white neighborhood, where the previous black family had a cross burned on their lawn. -- J. August Richards
I think that part of being a good journalist, part of being an awake member of the world you're in, is to view yourself as an outsider, and I always have, to some degree. -- Mark Leibovich
If you don't belong somewhere, that outsider status you have gives you perspective. Of course, another word for outsider is 'exile,' and that's not fun at all. -- Peter Morgan
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. -- Anne Rice
I think outsiders sometimes produce the best fictional perspectives on reality because they're set apart from it, so they have a unique view from the border. -- Christopher Rice
I have been so alone on this journey, cut off from my past. However hard I try, I will always feel alien and strange. And now I've stumbled on a fellow outsider, one who speaks my language without saying a word. -- Christina Baker Kline
I wouldn't consider myself an outsider artist because I have a university degree in painting. -- Marcel Dzama
A thing we always talk about in today's culture is that nobody is an outsider - everybody's kind of a hipster on the inside. -- Chris Stein
I often felt myself to be an outsider, which is great training for all writers. -- Karen Russell
I allegedly am an outsider writer, so I write from the perspective of somebody who doesn't completely fit in. But at the same time, I can state the fact that I don't know of any good writer who is not an outsider writer. -- Rabih Alameddine
As an artist you actually do have to make a choice to be an outsider. If you're an outsider you have the freedom to say what people on the inside don't dare to say. -- Connie Nielsen
Everybody can relate to being an outsider, having to deal with that, and having to wrestle with how people view them. -- Lecrae
Being an outsider doesn't necessarily indicate any sort of social failing. We do not view a tuba player as musically challenged if he cannot play the violin. -- Alexandra Robbins
We're outsiders, and so when we walk through the city, we're there and not there at the same time, participating and observing simultaneously. -- Paul Auster
I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through. -- Barry Unsworth
I don't know if I was so much of an outsider until after I started doing films. That put me on the outside. I grew up in Texas, and I wasn't the child of industry parents, and I didn't have a lot of friends in the industry or anything like that. -- Henry Thomas
The feeling of being an outsider, and the identity theme, are hardwired into me. If there's anything really autobiographical in my fiction, it's that feeling. I always feel that way. -- Dan Chaon
For the outsider
and everyone in this world is an outsider in relation to everyone else
something always seems worse or better than it does for the one directly concerned, whether that something is good luck or bad luck, an unhappy love affair or an 'artistic decline'. -- Heinrich Boll
I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative. I don't like anything in the mainstream and they don't like me. -- Bill Hicks
it is easier to be an insider as an outsider than to be an outsider as an insider. -- Trevor Noah
I think that everyone who does music, and everyone who does art, or everyone who decides at a young age that they're gonna do that, is someone who feels like an outsider. The world is not really set up for that. -- El-P
I approach everything as an absolute outsider. It is the only way I can break so many rules. -- Klaus Nomi
I want every character be an outsider in some way. -- Josh Schwartz
Are you all right, Sir?"
Yes, I'm fine. My life is totally ruined but I'm fine. I feel free, detached from everything."
"Then you're an outsider to life. -- Tionne Rogers
Art is an outsider, a gypsy over the face of the earth. -- Robert Henri
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
I've always felt outside of things; I've always felt different. -- Patti Smith
Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider. -- Diane Abbott
Well -- I'm an outsider to the end of my days! -- Thomas Hardy
I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders. -- Baz Luhrmann
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. -- Carlisle Floyd
I think I always felt like an outsider, like a weirdo. -- Graham Moore
As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider. -- Shawn Ashmore
Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing. -- Ethan Embry
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. -- Atul Gawande
My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school, a stranger in a foreign country, the best at something, the worst at something, the one who's different. Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common. -- Alice Hoffman
As an outsider myself, I always mixed myself with different groups ... I've never been afraid to go into a different space and relate to those people, because I don't have a place where I belong and that means I belong everywhere. -- Trevor Noah
The man is the alien.
And the stranger.
And the lonely.
Confused, lost in himself, he no longer knows who or what he is, why or where he is. -- Cristiane Serruya
We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely. -- Hugo Weaving
From the beginnings of literature, poets and writers have based their narratives on crossing borders, on wandering, on exile, on encounters beyond the familiar. The stranger is an archetype in epic poetry, in novels. The tension between alienation and assimilation has always been a basic theme. -- Jhumpa Lahiri
It really helps a comedian to be an outsider. -- John Oliver
A stranger is someone with whom you feel strange. -- Robert Mandel
I suppose I've always been attracted to this sort of outsider in general - in literature, in music, politics, whatever - and to the person that is able to be relentlessly themselves. I don't think that I have that quality, that strength of mind. -- Cillian Murphy
I think I approach things with an outsider's perspective. -- Bennett Miller
To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world - impartial natures which the tongue can but clumsily define. The spectator is a prince who everywhere rejoices in his incognito. -- Charles Baudelaire
Alan Turing, to me, always felt like an outsider's outsider. -- Graham Moore
The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life. -- Jackie Kennedy
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 always. -- Shahzia Sikander
When I was growing up, all I wanted to do was fit in, but if you're perpetually an outsider, it gives you a perspective that might have a little more objectivity than people who really feel connected to their social environment in which they grow up. -- Moby
She wrote that she, too, always felt an outsider "...even to myself. -- Will Weaver
To be able to observe with a stranger's eye helps one to see with an artist's eye. What alienates us inspires. -- Jean Rostand
He was an outsider who lived by his ability to manipulate the inside. -- Joan Didion
In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider ... -- Simone De Beauvoir
The only time I used to feel like an outsider was when I first went to India. -- Gurinder Chadha
I'd rather be an outcast than to be inside feeling like an outsider. -- Peprah Boasiako
I love a kind of shambling outsider protagonist who always feels like they're 'other.' -- Jill Soloway
I've always felt a bit of an outsider. It used to worry me that, in terms of TV, I did not look like 'the girlfriend' or 'the daughter'. That pushed me to write my own stuff, as I thought no one else was going to write me a lead in the sitcom. -- Miranda Hart
Most of us don't want to be outsiders. -- Julian Fellowes
I'm a stranger in my own life. -- Lang Leav
Insider can be more ludicrous. How did I ever end up [as one]? Carsick [Waters's book on hitchhiking] was on the New York Times best-seller list for five weeks. [One of the characters was] a singing asshole that does a duet with Connie Francis! Times have changed. That's mainstream, in a weird way. -- John Waters
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
Even the most self-confident people, at one point of their lives, felt like outsiders or felt like they weren't being heard or seen or witnessed in some way. -- Steve Carell
I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction. -- Hallie Ephron
It's you my love, you who are the stranger. -- Leonard Cohen
There are no ordinary people. The blur or everyday reality has created a world in which most of us have forgotten our unique and sacred existence ... it is [our] true self, once discovered, that enables us to understand more clearly the nature of our world, and our own existence. -- Kim Chestney
If you've ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays within you. -- Tim Burton
The stranger is not a threat but an opportunity to grow in my view of reality, to grow in my own sense of possibility -- Parker J. Palmer
I love playing outsiders, I always do. -- Antony Sher
I always felt a little bit of an outsider, especially because I grew up on Oahu. -- Kaui Hart Hemmings
Who are you when no one is watching? -- Anonymous
What? An alien. You think I'm from outer space." She snorts in disbelief. "I'm Kelly Tillman, you dumb-ass. From 41 Montana Avenue, Valentine, Texas. What's left of it. I canned seventh grade for a piece-of-crap job with lousy tips and lousy hours. You ain't telling me I'm the outsider here. No way. -- Philip Webb
I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside. -- Xavier Niel
I've always been an outsider. Even in London. If I returned to Scotland, I'd feel a complete foreigner. -- Peter Doig
I think there is something a little too self conscious about enjoying being an outsider. -- Jhonen Vasquez
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
Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionary. -- Jenny Holzer
I am a stranger, even to myself. -- Cameron Jace
