Eliezer Yudkowsky Quotes

Crowded hallways, are the loneliest places, for outcasts and rebels,or anyone who just dares to be different.

Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I've done is about alienation... about where you fit in society.

Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?

I feel kind of like the black sheep in Congress, but here I am.

I wasn't interested in football. It made me different. I wore glasses, had bad hair, a funny name, you name it.

I would go to school and try to talk to my mates about music and playing instruments and stuff, and they would turn around and go, 'What're you talking about? Shut up.' And I realised that I was the weird one.

I'm definitely gonna be an outcast.

I turned to punk because I didn't fit in anywhere else.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

My background sets me apart. I've never been able to relate to many people. I've always been the outcast child.

Mad people = People who stand alone and burn. I'm attracted to them because they give me permission to do the same.

I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

I've never been a social person. When I grew up, the other girls would all be combing their hair and exchanging lipstick, and I just couldn't do that group thing.

I don't much mind being expelled from communities.

At one point in time or another, everyone's an outcast, and you have to deal with those sort of issues in society. Especially for teenage kids, I don't think there's anyone that's really been through childhood and not been an outcast in one way or another.

Growing up in Seattle, I was always that kid who didn't subscribe to what everyone else was wearing.

I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean.

I've never been able to relate to many people. I've always been the outcast child. I don't follow the rules. That's kind of how I do everything. Through my music, I've found a place in the world where I'm accepted, so I'm happy.

So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

We just kind of did our own thing and got made fun of by the popular kids. It was kind of like a badge of honor to be an outcast.

I was never part of the crowd.

I've always been interested in the outsider.

Growing up, I didn't feel cool; I didn't fit into any crowd.

As a fair skinned blonde, I disappeared into the background. I've always been a loner, so I suppose dyeing my hair red was a way to say, 'I'm here, I exist, I'm a human being and you can't just push me aside.'