“I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.”
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“The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.”
“In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority.”
“Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.”
“My learning process is by eye alone it's not at all scientific.”
“But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.”
“I feel so good after a workout. Any time you can be alone with yourself is really important.”
“I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.”
“One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country.”
“No one should be left to suffer alone.”
“When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level.”
“I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.”
“The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.”
“Making checklists of things you're looking for in a person is the numero uno thing you can do to guarantee you'll be alone forever.”
“I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up alone.”
“When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.”
“At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment, one so severe it can sometimes be crippling. Introverted people don't worry unduly about whether they'll be found wanting, they just find too much socializing exhausting and would prefer either to be alone or in the company of a select few people.”
“Virtue alone has majesty in death.”
“Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively.”
“I'm fiercely independent, but I'm also terrified of being alone.”
“It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.”
“For so long as the Jew has even one ally, he will be convinced - in his smallness of mind - that his salvation came from that ally. It is only when he is alone - against all of his own efforts and frantic attempts - that he will, through no choice, be compelled to turn to G-d.”
“But it seems that the judging maybe they shouldn't at least see the practices all week long. That can taint the way they go into the judging and the outlook of what's going to happen, instead of just watching those four minutes and judging on those minutes alone.”
“No one chooses to raise children alone.”