Eminem
Rapper, songwriter, record producer
"Inside I'll always be an outsider"
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Outsiders
222 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Eckhart Tolle
Spiritual Teacher, Author
"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."
Robert Henri
Artist
"Art is an outsider, a gypsy over the face of the earth."
Colin Wilson
Author, Philosopher
"Ask the Outsider what he ultimately wants,and he will admit he doesn't know.Why? Because he wants it instinctively,and it is not always possible to tell what your instincts are driving towards."
Jackie Kennedy
First Lady
"The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life."
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"And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside."
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"I'm a drifter and an outsider. There's not one single environment I can totally belong to."
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"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.""
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"Any social or cultural change has to be made openly and with people agreeing. You don't get there by just pushing an outsider's point of view."
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"It's easy to gravitate toward something negative as opposed to something positive, especially if you're an outsider."
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"The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and intensified the contempt and hostility aroused by his physical defects. Which in turn increased his sense of being alien and alone. A chronic fear of being slighted made him avoid his equals, made him stand, where his inferiors were concerned, self-consciously on his dignity."
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"I've always felt like such an outsider in this industry. Because I'm so insane I guess."
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"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."
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"the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it."
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"London has always been a haven for victims of cruelty, and been improved by them. Yet I can see it changing now. Outsiders are demonised, there are little bits of legislation, people are scared."
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"Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous."
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"I feel like I've always been a weirdo. I always grew up with the sense of being a total outsider. I grew up so alienated from other people, and it never went away. When I'm around "normal" people I behave around them as if they are crazy, which makes me seem crazy."
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"The Outsider isn't [Albert] Camus, but in The Outsider there are parts of Camus. There's this impression of exile."
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"I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider."
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"In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider."
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"... love is banality to all outsiders."
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"In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies."
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"Although the Senate is much given to admiring in its members a superiority less obvious or quite invisible to outsiders, one Senator seldom proclaims his own inferiority to another, and still more seldom likes to be told of it."
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"What one does in one's art, that is the breath of one's being. What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about."
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"I think it's true that, as is often observed, the writer is always an outsider. A writer is someone who is telling stories about what's going on, which is something you can't do if you're totally caught up in the moment."
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