949 private quotes tagged alone

“That song is a story that shows how easily you could get slipped into being labeled as the bad guy, even though what you really trying to do is tell the bad guy to leave you alone.” — Slick Rick

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“She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.” — Liam Gallagher

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“I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement on just what Reagan's record is and what he might do to the country, let alone the Republican Party before Christmas.” — Robert Teeter

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“There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.” — Knut Hamsun

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“Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.” — Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

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“Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.” — Lajos Kossuth

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“The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.” — Lajos Kossuth

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“Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.” — David Brooks

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“I have a responsibility to nurture and shepherd my talent and when I'm living the parts of my life not related to that I feel I have the right to be left alone.” — Ashley Judd

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“President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.” — William Westmoreland

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“When I was working on Eye of the Beholder, I played a character who is so aloof that my whole lifestyle became very aloof. If someone knocked on my door, there was a part of me that went into a rage, because I wanted to be isolated and alone.” — Ashley Judd

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“Both my husband and I give a lot of ourselves in what we do because that is our public lives but in my private life, I have an intrinsic right to be left alone.” — Ashley Judd

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“Looking back on those games, I probably hustled out of position as much as I hustled into position since I really never had any real training. I was working on instincts alone.” — Jim Evans

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“The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But when you're a director, you're shopping - you're picking this actor, you're picking this scene. It's like the most intense kinetic high-speed shopping of all time. You sit in a chair and it will all come rushing at you like a wind tunnel.” — Tony Gilroy

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“There's this thing of you can live in a city and be completely alone, not notice anything going on around you.” — Simon Pegg

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“There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldn't even notice, that the British wouldn't even notice, let alone the American audience.” — Simon Pegg

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“Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.” — Simon Raven

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“Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.” — Dorothy Day

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“Iran has long sponsored terrorists who carry out homicide bombings in Israeli cities. However, it is a mistake to believe the danger Iran poses is directed at Israel alone.” — John Doolittle

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“Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.” — Sophie Swetchine

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“I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.” — Robert Cormier

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“I never thought a basketball shoe would be named after a woman, let alone me.” — Sheryl Swoopes

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“Man, I hate to get depressing on you, but I don't have a game. I'm so alone, so depressed, so dark, no.” — Jason Schwartzman

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“The population forecast for the United States in 1970 is 170 million. The population forecast for Russia alone in 1970 is 251 million. The implications are clear.” — Emanuel Celler

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“When you see a struggle that you may be having personally put on a big screen and in a roomful of people, then it makes you feel less crazy or alone, because you're seeing that other people are dealing with it too. You get to see in this imaginary scenario how people might try and answer some questions or deal with some problems.” — Michael Shannon

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