Quotes About Belonging

I don't care what political party is controlling China right now. All I know is we are all Chinese.

People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.

I'm looking for some centrist political party to find a home in and it's not there, actually.

I figured if you live in a country long enough, you want to be a part of the political process, and you sort of owe it to your hosts. They've accepted you. Why wouldn't you accept them?

I feel very much ideologically, politically if you like, and emotionally part of the European cinema.

For Conservatives, all disputes over law, liberty and justice are addressed to a historic and existing community. The root of politics, they believe, is attachment - the motive in human beings that binds them to the place, the customs, the history and the people who are theirs.

When you are born gay, you are born into a rich culture of politics, music, and art, but you are also a minority in your own home.

I was a lone duck in a swan-filled pond who criticized everyone.

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

Culture is something that we all share, and we are all the poorer for anyone excluded from it.

Whether we are poor among the poorest, or less poor among the wealthier, let us stand proud and noteworthy, united and strong, comforted by our belonging to the Community of the Free Nations of our Planet.

We didn't gel with Poison and the Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi was the best of the pop metal bands, but we never fit in with the hair metal stuff. We were never as hip as the Chili Peppers. We were in the middle.

It meant something to see people who looked like me in comic books. It was this beautiful place that I felt pop culture should look like.

Pop music, I think there's a reason why kids connect to it.

Alternative culture has always had a populace within the black and brown community.

Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.

I wasn't even popular at school.

Popular kids don't necessarily know who they are because they're so busy trying to conform. It's the outcasts who are more attuned to who they are. They're more self-aware, more real.

I think everyone in high school at one point feels like they're on the outside observing what's going on. Even if you're very popular, you have an outsider experience.

People have disliked me. You know, in high school, I wasn't the most popular kid. I wasn't the nerdiest kid. I was kind of in the middle.

I moved to New York from California when I was 11, so initially I was seen as the California person for a while. I didn't feel like I was popular, but I did feel confident.

I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.

I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school... I wasn't a popular kid. I was an outcast.

These people who come to Comic-Con and dress up - all across the country, the rest of the population who doesn't understand are scoffing at them.