Alone Quotes
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If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone do not determine an exact path in your life.
Jeffrey Eugenides
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To be alone with the girl to whom he is not engaged, is a man's delight; - to be alone with the man to whom she is engaged is the woman's.
Anthony Trollope
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Standup is really the only thing in the entertainment business that you do totally alone.
Brad Garrett
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No one wanted me to be a conscientious objector. My parents certainly didn't want it. My teacher and mentor, Joe Brearley, didn't want it. My friends didn't want it. I was alone.
Harold Pinter
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When you're an artist, you're generally working at home alone in a studio. It's just really good to get with other guys and make art something you can share.
Brian Stelfreeze
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Remember we're all in this alone.
Lily Tomlin
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In Arkansas alone, approximately three quarters of a million people are at risk of going hungry, and one in four children does not get enough to eat, so my goal is to bring awareness to this tragic issue.
Blanche Lincoln
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I speak 'with absolute certainty' only so far as my own personal belief is concerned. Those who have not the same warrant for their belief as I have, would be very credulous and foolish to accept it on blind faith. Nor does the writer believe any more than her correspondent and his friends in any 'authority' let alone 'divine revelation'!
Helena Blavatsky
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Mavericks are nonconformists. They pride themselves on going it alone.
Jacqueline Leo
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The President has no real plan to address the fiscal challenges arising from the retirement of the baby boom generation, let alone a plan to fix Social Security.
Jack Reed
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Stand back, leave me alone, submerged people,Go away. I haven't dispossessed anyone,Haven't usurped anyone's bread.No one died in my place. No one.Go back into your mist.It's not my fault if I live and breathe,Eat, drink, sleep and put on clothes.
Primo Levi
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Our parents had Ph.D.s, but we were dirty ragamuffin children. I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.
Rachel Kushner
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To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed.
Edward Abbey
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I do recall one moment when I went to India by myself. I was paralyzed with fear to travel alone, but I had this intuitive hint that I had to do it. It was transformative and beautiful.
Jen Sincero
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I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset me very much at that phase in my life, because I used to think: 'What about people like me?'
Wendy Cope
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Before the day my grandmother shared her treasured letters with me, I honestly wasn't much of a fiction reader, let alone creative writer.
Kristina McMorris
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I'm more like my father, personality-wise. But my mom and I get alone really well - obviously, because my mom and my dad get along so well.
Jenna Bush
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Sometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone,But as the meaning of all things that are.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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All art stems from a place of alienation. Intimate and alone. Most people are oppressed by the opinion of others, but I was not that way. I was afraid of the repercussions of not doing what I was told to do, what I was called to do by a creator.
CeeLo Green
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We are embedded in the great evolutionary story of planet Earth, the spare, elegant process of mutation and selection and bricolage. And this means that we are anything but alone.
Ursula Goodenough
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Pressure, to me, was creating a 'Star Wars' film, then sitting alone in a theater with George Lucas and showing it to him, the guy that created the word 'Wookiee' and R2-D2. That was pressure.
Dave Filoni
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It's not easy to come somewhere new and have to find your place. You might feel someone doesn't like you, or you might need to find new friends. It's not easy, and I don't like this kind of thing. It's not easy, so you want to protect the players who are alone.
Fernando Torres
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Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.
Bahá'u'lláh
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Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived.
Walter Annenberg