“Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, let alone American movies.”
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“Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.”
“Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.”
“But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.”
“All we ask is to be let alone.”
“I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?”
“As strong as the United States is, we can't deal with terrorism alone.”
“I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.”
“Work alone will efface the footsteps of work.”
“A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.”
“And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing.”
“U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.”
“No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.”
“I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many the camera alone would be enough.”
“I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be.”
“Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.”
“Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.”
“When we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality.”
“Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.”
“If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.”
“The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.”
“Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.”
“I think more and more people want to live alone. You can be a couple without being in each other's pockets. I don't see why you have to share the same bathroom.”
“I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I've been known to crawl out of bed and drink out of a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke.”