“When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.”
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“I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.”
“As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.”
“The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.”
“Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.”
“When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.”
“It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.”
“The best thing I've learned is, if you're going out, never go out alone - you leave yourself vulnerable. If you've got someone else there you trust, they can say, be wary of that person. I probably used to be too trusting of people.”
“The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.”
“Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made on wire, not even tape, let alone digital.”
“Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.”
“I'm a happy man, because I am successful in what I do, of course but what makes me most happy is I have people around me that I love and who love me back. This, for me, is the most important thing. Nobody likes to be alone.”
“True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.”
“No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.”
“I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.”
“We're all in this alone.”
“When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.”
“This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.”
“If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.”
“It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.”
“I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone.”
“If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm sure. If I'm busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil's playground.”
“The only time I commit to conspiracy theories is when something way retarded happens. Like Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone.”
“A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.”