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It's like people believe all you need to do is like the same bands in order to be soulmates. Or book. Oh my god...you like The Outsiders too...it's like we're the same person! No, we're not. It's like we have the same English teacher. There's a difference. -- John Green
Writers are spies. Outsiders. Believers in the turning pages. -- Alexis De Veaux
Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have. -- Diane Abbott
'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback. -- S. E. Hinton
The West Wing and The Outsiders are the gifts that keep on giving. -- Rob Lowe
Outsiders develop humor as a defense; why do you think most comedians are gay or Jewish? -- Paul Lynde
I like the brand Band of Outsiders. Their suits are cut really slim, for smaller framed gentlemen. -- Aziz Ansari
I think that The Outsiders was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it. -- S. E. Hinton
I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it. -- S. E. Hinton
When I was filming 'The Outsiders,' my idea of success was getting the next Martin Scorsese movie. -- Rob Lowe
Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool. -- Brian Molko
Outsiders have the intuitive ability to continually view problems in fresh ways and to identify ineffective practices and traditions. -- John P. Kotter
I want to be like Tom Cruise from 'The Outsiders' and go on and do amazing movies for a long time. -- Ashton Kutcher
[The Outsiders] was very competitive, in the best possible way. Full of love, full of companionship and fellowship, pranks and practical jokes and ball-busting. -- Rob Lowe
Before vampires were aesthetically appealing, they were physical anomalies and ostracized outsiders whom we banished to the dark, and they didn't have the appeal that they do now. -- Ian Somerhalder
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
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. -- Emma Thompson
Like many authors, I caught the writing bug during my teenage years. I don't remember the exact day or year, but I remember that reading S.E. Hinton's 'The Outsiders' sparked my interest in writing. -- Ally Carter
[The Outsiders] was all new to me. It's been fun to be a part of that ride, where it's become on the level of Catcher In The Rye in terms of people's required reading in schools. -- Rob Lowe
The thing is, the Tulsa experience that I wrote about in 'The Outsiders' is closer to the universal experience than it would be if I wrote it from L.A. or New York. It's an everyman story. -- S. E. Hinton
There is a movie called 'My Dog Skip,' starring my 'Outsiders' costar Diane Lane. I do not recommend it. If you have a child, particularly one about to leave home, watching this film is to be emotionally waterboarded. -- Rob Lowe
I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise. -- S. E. Hinton
A lot of the main characters in horror movies are outsiders as well, so that outsider syndrome reverberates within horror fans and geeky collectors. It's kind of a rallying call that brings fans and collectors together who are a little socially retarded, maybe. -- Kirk Hammett
The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality. -- S. E. Hinton
I think [The Outsiders] really forged who I am as an actor, and it's one of the reasons why I keep being drawn to big ensembles where I'm surrounded by strong, successful actors or personalities. Because that was my initial foray into movie making. -- Rob Lowe
The Ocaina and many of the other indigenous peoples of the Amazon were nearly wiped out during the rubber boom in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Outsiders came into the jungle, enslaved the tribes to harvest the rubber and killed those that resisted. -- Tom Cole
Francis [Ford Coppola] was on the cover of Time Magazine for One From The Heart and for owning a studio, and he was fresh off of Apocalypse [Now] and The Godfather films, so he was at the absolute top of his game and legend [in The Outsiders ]. -- Rob Lowe
I was not familiar with the book [before filming in The Outsiders] , though. Interestingly, The Outsiders had not reached the point where it is now, where it's required reading in sixth and seventh grades. In my sixth and seventh grade, we did not, but today everyone does. -- Rob Lowe
It was easy to believe, between lessons on Shakespeare and Dickens and Austen, that all of the great stories had already been written by dead Europeans. But every time I saw 'The Outsiders', I knew better. It was the first time I'd realized that real people write books. -- Ally Carter
As academics we have pretty good judgment about the quality of institutions that cannot simply be measured by counting the number of papers published or patents received. Outsiders who swoop in to count beans and make up lists based on statistics have little sense of what excellence is. -- Henry Rosovsky
let's do it for Johnny -- S. E. Hinton
Inside I'll always be an outsider -- Eminem
No matter where you are, you're always a bit on your own, always an outsider. -- Banana Yoshimoto
I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative. -- Bill Hicks
When you feel like an outsider - for whatever reason - you spend a lot of time alone. -- Meg Cabot
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. -- H. P. Lovecraft
When you're an outsider or a misfit, if you play it smart, your motto should be, 'I'll show 'em. I will show you.' -- Wendy Williams
Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within. -- Phyllis Bottome
A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy. -- Lauren Bacall
You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don't think he knows. -- S. E. Hinton
Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much information they're given, they have no idea what the person's life is like. -- Amy Grant
It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat. -- Richard Hofstadter
It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill - it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy. -- Vincent Van Gogh
What you should say to outsiders is that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our Association than an atheist. When our platform becomes too narrow for people of all creeds and of no creeds, I myself shall not stand upon it. -- Susan B. Anthony
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 equations and incomprehensible concepts. Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas. -- Ivars Peterson
A fan is always an outsider. Most sportswriters are not, by this definition, fans. They capitalize on access to athletes. They spoke to Kobe last night, and Kobe says his finger is going to be fine. They spent three days fly-fishing with Brett Favre in March, and Brett says he's definitely coming back for another season. -- Malcolm Gladwell
What if all I'd ever known was how it had been for the past three years - me being an unwanted outsider in my own family? I might have turned out like Aphrodite, and I might still be letting my parents control me because I was hoping desperately that I would be good enough, make them proud, so that some day they would really love me. -- P. C. Cast
To the people here, we are outsiders. Foreigners. -- Roberto Clemente
In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies. -- Desmond Tutu
I feel like my friends are in a cult because we're like, 'No outsiders! -- Leighton Meester
We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely. -- Hugo Weaving
I don't feel the pressure by outsiders. I'm not someone who's easily influenced by the public. -- Khloe Kardashian
You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force. -- Jim Hightower
I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have. -- John Irving
When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it. -- Bill Gates
Our family were outsiders, and I've always had a sense of the outsider, the underdog, and a strong sense of justice towards people who are excluded. -- Andy Serkis
We were not treated by our own government as proper human beings and consequently, some outsiders did not regard us as the same kind of humans as themselves. -- Jung Chang
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 doors, there are usually high emotions running. -- Salman Rushdie
It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers. -- Luis Gutierrez
I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Before, Indian people had been so defeated, they were always looking for outsiders, for the government, to somehow come in and fix things. But now, they seem to realize that they're the only ones who can save themselves. -- James Welch
I always think that the exceptional people are those who remain outsiders but still communicate on a grand scale. I think I want everyone to feel more free, and so I feel really claustrophobic on behalf of lots of people. -- Bat for Lashes
Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks. -- Isabel Allende
People who are feeling bullied and people who feel like outsiders should talk to their parents and guardians about finding a place with likeminded people where they can feel accepted. That's what I needed, and that's what I found with musical theater. -- Nick Jonas
To outsiders it probably seems like splitting hairs, but to me, Bright Eyes is a simply the collaboration between myself and Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott. What you hear is definitely the sum of all our ideas and represents all three of us. But I still write the songs myself. -- Conor Oberst
Skaters, I think they tend to be outsiders who seek a sense of belonging, but belonging on their own terms, and real respect is given by how much we take what other guys do, these basic tricks, 360 flips, we take that, we make it our own, and then we contribute back to the community the inner way that edifies the community itself. -- Rodney Mullen
... love is banality to all outsiders. -- Mae West
Officialdom is hostile to inquiring outsiders. -- Martha Gellhorn
I love playing outsiders, I always do. -- Antony Sher
Most of us don't want to be outsiders. -- Julian Fellowes
Washington D.C.! Congress is full of self-declared outsiders. -- Aleksandar Hemon
Being closed to outsiders made the iPhone reliable and predictable. -- Jonathan Zittrain
Entrepreneurs are outsiders by nature - outsiders with a work ethic. -- Anita Roddick
I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders. -- Baz Luhrmann
We were German-Americans in a British colony, so we were outsiders. -- Kurt Vonnegut
I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world. -- Paloma Faith
My plays tend to be peopled with outsiders in search of clarity. -- David Lindsay-Abaire
What [Adolf Hitler] felt deep inside he wasn't going to show to outsiders. -- Gretl Braun
Revenge feels right only to those directly involved. Justice feels right even to outsiders. -- Marilyn vos Savant
We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely -- Hugo Weaving
The establishment isn't new. The establishment not wanting outsiders, not wanting conservatives, isn't anything new. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
The Church must stop expecting outsiders to act like insiders while insiders act like outsiders. -- Andy Stanley
The establishment isn't new. The establishment not wanting outsiders, not wanting conservatives, isn't anything new. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
I'll bring in outsiders to evaluate state agencies. They can sometimes see what we can't. -- Tom Osborne
I hate people doing an emotional striptease. It's never genuine or they wouldn't drag outsiders m. -- Evelyn Anthony
Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups. -- Anne Rice
Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life. -- Mika
I was always an outsider, proud of being an outsider. I always reveled in the outsiders. -- John Zorn
Every religion seems like a fantasy to outsiders, but as holy truth to those of the faith. -- Isaac Asimov
Usually the Indian people are outsiders who have to look up at the people who look down. -- Luis Gonzalez
And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside. -- Stephen King
Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. -- Audre Lorde
A society is a group whose members have more relationships with one another then they do with outsiders. -- Carroll Quigley
We are essentially outsiders and that is the best definition of an entrepreneur I have ever come across. -- Anita Roddick
Somehow even tragedies seem less tragical, when you are the actors in them, than they look to outsiders -- Hannah Whitall Smith
Nice plan. Take the gullible outsiders, walk them around for a bit, then feed them to the giant tortoise. -- Ilona Andrews
In times of shrinking expectations,... everyone feels like a victim and pushes away outsiders to defend his own corner. -- Oscar Handlin
Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous. -- Al Pacino
Im not an American but I have always had the outsiders respect for the American people and the American way. -- Christiane Amanpour
The bands you like and know that are French are always outsiders in the French music industry - Daft Punk, Air. -- Laurent Brancowitz
Compassion makes no distinction between friends and enemies, neighbors and outsiders, compatriots and foreigners. Compassion is the gate to human community. -- Joan D. Chittister
The angel rolled away the stone from Jesus' tomb, not to let the living Lord out, but to let unconvinced outsiders in. -- Donald Barnhouse
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
The real freedom comes to us when we can learn to go inside and connect with that voice. Then, we're not relying on outsiders. -- Echo Bodine
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
What we [outsiders] feel America is really about - the kind of crazed ravings of the Christian right - when it's probably something quite different. -- Nick Cave
I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt. -- Jason Robert Brown
'Sex and the City' is about outsiders. Single girls as lepers, should have been married by now. It's the reason the whole thing took off. -- Michael Patrick King
Sex and the City' is about outsiders. Single girls as lepers, should have been married by now. It's the reason the whole thing took off. -- Michael Patrick King
Despite outsiders being invited to write software, the iPhone thus remains tightly tethered to its vendor - the way that the Kindle is controlled by Amazon. -- Jonathan Zittrain
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 layer. --
Like many great world faiths, Mormonism has an important strand of sacred mystery. Mormon temples have traditionally been closed to outsiders and designed with opaque windows. -- Noah Feldman
The free electoral process is one of the things that outsiders envy most about this country.The distinctly American two-party system is perpetuated through that process. -- Robert A. Agresta
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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
For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly than to argue. -- Olive Schreiner
We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means available to outsiders. -- J. William Fulbright
I believe young female directors in particular should always remind themselves of the truths of their own stories and not let outsiders influence the authenticity of their films. -- Shahad Ameen
Great performers in all fields seem immune to what outsiders think about them. Their sense of themselves never depends on the feedback-positive or negative-they get from the environment. -- John Eliot
When I look back on my reading habits when I was really young, I was really drawn to stories about strong girls who in some ways are outsiders. -- Jesmyn Ward

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