Thomas Friedman Quotes

All of them turned their backs on me at that time because they thought I was a troublemaker.

I wasn't popular in high school; I had no friends.

It wasn't that I got pinned against my locker, but I was intensely aware that the things I valued weren't shared by anyone. Girls didn't like me, and I had few friends.

I don't consider myself a pariah.

Even at church, people would not shake my hand.

People would get up and leave so they would not have to sit anywhere near me.

I was always an outcast, even in my family.

I've never really fit in.

I tried so many times to fit in but I could never ever fit in. I was always like, an outcast.

I like being the hated one.

I'm definitely gonna be an outcast.

I was the green monkey, the pariah. And I had no friends. Not just a few friends, or one good friend, or grudging acceptance by other misfits and outcasts. I was alone. All stinking alone, without even an imaginary playmate.

You could say I try to eliminate people.

I'm the outcast of the hip-hop game.

A lot of the time in modern Britain, certainly in urban life, we barely have any contact at all with the people around us.

Everyone has been an outcast at one point in their life.

You look around, and you think, 'Given the chance, if we can get away with it, people are going to be nasty to each other. They're going to pull up the draw bridge; they're going to draw up the ladder and try to live in this little bubble without giving anything to anyone else - without even receiving anything from anyone else.'

I was unpopular my whole life.

The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or imagined- by them.

You can't always be pushing people away. Someday nobody'll come back.

You'd think getting chopped into a million pieces and cast into the darkest part of the Underworld would give him a subtle clue that nobody wanted him around.

I have come to realize more and more that the greatest disease and the greatest suffering is to be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, to be shunned by everybody, to be just nobody.

I am the outcast come home to roost and the eggs of tomorrow are incubating in my fame. You hate me, you love me, you made me, and now I am in you. I am like that disease brewing in your loins and I think you like it.

Everyone in life knows what it's like to be picked on and to feel like an outsider.