Quotes About Alienating Others

#1. I've gone from having a huge fan base to losing a huge fan base to having a kind of fluctuating fan base. I've always had a core of fans who've stuck by me but, depending on the kind of music I do, I end up appealing to certain groups of people and alienating others.

Madonna Ciccone

#2. At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come out with personal truth.

May Sarton

#3. There are points where you worry that you might be putting too much in and alienating the audience. But, funnily enough, some of those fears aren't correct.

Christopher Nolan

#4. There are subtle ways and overt ways of alienating a child from a parent, but either way it's evil

Dennis Prager

#5. I never felt I was attractive to women. I felt I was attractive to men when I was growing up. And even now, if a woman fancies me, I find that a bit alienating.

Russell Tovey

#6. P68- when a word is deprived of its dimension of action,reflection automatically suffers as well and the word is changed into idle chatter, into verbalism,into an alienated and alienating "blah". It becomes an empty word that cant denounce the world.

Paulo Freire

#7. For me, a lot of my work has dealt with what it means to be at the center of the universe and how alienating and kind of seductive it is. A lot of my work is very aggressive and very visual, but at the same time, it has a lot of tension in it and makes you kind of uncomfortable sometimes.

Marco Brambilla

#8. I feel the president is ignoring the opinion of many in the U.S. and alienating the rest of the world. My comments were made in frustration, and one of the privileges of being an American is you are free to voice your own point of view.

Natalie Maines

#9. Illness was a temporary respite, a release from the demands of an alienating world.

Lauren Slater

#10. Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me.

Bruno Dumont

#11. When companies create ridiculous and demoralizing rules to halt the outlandish behavior of a few individuals, it's a management problem. There's no sense in alienating your entire workforce because you don't know how to manage performance. It makes a bad situation that much worse.

Travis Bradberry

#12. There are many people who do view scientific research as alienating from religion and from God, and when so many people do, there must be some reason for it.

George Coyne

#13. P60- one does not liberate people by alienating them.
P62- consciousness is the constant unveiling of reality.

Paulo Freire

#14. The theory of evolution also had a very great effect in alienating science from religion and creating a world in which one could go about studying the wonders of creation without ever having a sense of wonder in the religious sense of that term.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

#15. I suspect that they put Socrates to death because there is something terribly unattractive, alienating, and nonhuman in thinking with too much clarity.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#16. I used to feel that I spent too much of my time in my pajamas doing nothing, and I'd think 'in the time that I don't spend writing, I could raise a family of five.' In a lot of ways, being a writer is lonely and alienating.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#17. I thought I had a talent for alienating people, but I have no idea what it is that doesn't go over.

Nellie McKay

#18. When it defines man as the enemy, feminism is alienating women from their own bodies.

Camille Paglia

#19. Generations of readers, bored with their own alienating, repetitious jobs, have been mesmerized by Crusoe's essential, civilization-building chores.

Maureen Corrigan

#20. The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it's a way to care about things, but also not to alienate yourself from the rest of the world. But it's so much more alienating than vegetarianism.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#21. There's probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to.

Diablo Cody

#22. When I was developing St. Lucia - around 2008, 2009, at the peak of Pitchfork culture - what was considered cool was being as alienating to your audience as possible.

St. Lucia

#23. The U.S. should take notes: Government overspending and a campaign of alienating investors and small business isn't really the best way to boost the economy or overcome massive unemployment.

Oliver DeMille

#24. Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.

Neel Burton

#25. I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That's something we need to support each other with.

Idina Menzel

#26. There is great potential and deep fragility [in Malaysia] that can be used by any group that stresses on religion, pushing towards Islam, rejecting people and alienating migrants - anything can be used to win the next elections. So these are the signs of fragility that is very much there.

Tariq Ramadan

#27. Trying to be really dark and alienating just felt exhausting to me, so I started going back to the music that I grew up with, whether it was African music or pop music. It took me away from being overly self-conscious about what I was doing.

St. Lucia

#28. Bryant Gumbel is thrilled about his CBS deal and can't wait to start alienating the staff of an entirely new network.

Craig Kilborn

#29. It's a gamble you take, the risk of alienating an audience. But there's a theory - sometimes it's better to confuse them for five minutes than let them get ahead of you for 10 seconds.

Paul Thomas Anderson

#30. Aliens didn't come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can never be alienating; it can only be an expression of our humanity.

Douglas Coupland

#31. The problem with alienating, self-destructive behavior is people get it into their heads it's a cry for help. It wasn't.

Courtney Summers

#32. I think some period drama can be quite alienating, but 'Downton' isn't. This is going to sound quite, um, pretentious, but someone said that it's like a soap written by a poet.

Michelle Dockery