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On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points. -- Virginia Woolf
I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts. -- Rachel Weisz
When I drop my son off at school, I love walking around the outskirts of Hampstead Heath. -- Sean Pertwee
I live in Hamburg; that's in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like countryside. -- Cornelia Funke
I attended an evangelical Christian university on the outskirts of suburban Los Angeles and by the time of my graduation was neither evangelical nor Christian. -- Mallory Ortberg
There are these very poor communities on the outskirts of Cairo called Mokattam, where a lot of the garbage collectors live. I used to volunteer there, doing health and education work when I was younger and living in Egypt. -- Jehane Noujaim
When we talk about communities, we seldom discuss the margins. But for every person nestled comfortably in the bosom of a community, there is someone else on the outskirts, feeling ambivalent. Ambiguous. Excluded. Unwilling or unable to come more fully into the fold. -- Adam Mansbach
Unlike the interference of ordinary interest, power, or prejudice, which touches philosophy only at its outskirts and becomes at most a matter for philosophical tactics, the claim of revelation to the highest truth touches philosophy at its core and must affect its whole strategy. -- Hans Jonas
My grandmother and my mom and my aunt Aurelia, my grandmother Juanita, my mom Lucia - we lived on the outskirts of a barrio in Mexico City called Tepito, and Tepito for many, many decades was the largest barrio in Mexico and perhaps even Latin America. -- Juan Felipe Herrera
It's a diabolical business. I can't imagine how hellish it must be to be hounded like Amy Winehouse and people like that. I have a little peripheral place on the outskirts of celebrity, when I go to premieres and that sort of stuff, which is as close as I want to get. -- Jeff Beck
My initial plan was to spend a year in France, go to some kind of school and learn a bit of French. I went a year in an American college in the outskirts of Strasbourg, but got a glimpse of a real art school, L'Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, and enrolled the following year. -- John Howe
I may just be on the outskirts of being okay. -- Pawan Mishra
The long arm of the law slides up the outskirts of town. -- Elvis Costello
Their objective is to get to the outskirts of Baghdad. So be it -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
If we knew the truth, we'd see it; all else is system and outskirts. -- Fernando Pessoa
[Long Island] is buoyant, it's on the outskirts of Manhattan, and so they have access to phenomenal restaurants. -- Gordon Ramsay
Around the outskirts of the city, cut off from town by the black oval of the river, everything was in darkness. Everyone ugly was in bed by now. -- Scott Westerfeld
His name was Rambo, and he was just some nothing kid for all anybody knew, standing by the pump of a gas station at the outskirts of Madison, Kentucky. -- David Morrell
Europeans know that their great experiment in building peace, unity and prosperity cannot survive as a privileged enclave, surrounded on its outskirts by breeding grounds of hatred and fanaticism. -- Dick Cheney
The conquest of the outskirts of the atmosphere, and eventually space, is a revolutionary event, comparable only to the transition of the aquatic animals to the land in geologic times. -- Hubertus Strughold
I drank my bottle of milk and ate my morsel of bread somewhere on the outskirts, while I circumspectly studied my environment or else fell to meditating on my own harsh lot. -- Adolf Hitler
Poetry, in the past, was the center of our society, but with modernity it has retreated to the outskirts. I think the exile of poetry is also the exile of the best of humankind. -- Octavio Paz
Mind you, Thunder Bay has a lot of outskirts. It's actually two cities melded together, so in a sense it has twice as many outskirts as other places. It's understandable that we got lost.... -- Paul Quarrington

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