949 private quotes tagged alone

“It is my personality alone that has brought back the waltz and made it a global craze.” — Andre Rieu

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“That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity.” — Charles Eastman

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“It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate.” — Jenny Holzer

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“Israel is no longer a people that dwells alone, and has to join the global journey toward peace, reconciliation and international cooperation.” — Yitzhak Rabin

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“I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone.” — William Weld

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“I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I had never handled money. You know, there was always a couple of bodyguards behind me, who took care if I wanted... I needed pencils for school, I needed a notebook, they were the ones who were taking out the money. I was constantly guarded.” — Bharati Mukherjee

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“I love photo sessions. I'm alone, I'm the queen, everyone's taking care of me.” — Eva Herzigova

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“On the one hand, shopping is dependable: You can do it alone, if you lose your heart to something that is wrong for you, you can return it it's instant gratification and yet something you buy may well last for years.” — Judith Krantz

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“And I don't have any specific steps to take because I don't start the same way every time. But there is a knowing when it's enough and you can leave it alone.” — Bruce Nauman

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“Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.” — Uwe Boll

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“What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by steady work alone that we hope for our physical and moral rehabilitation. For this reason above all we have undertaken to rally our people around our ideal.” — Theodor Herzl

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“The whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the players and it can affect their confidence and the overall performance of the national team on the pitch, let alone the bid to actually stage the competition.” — Gary Lineker

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“If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience.” — Robert M. Gates

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“And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.” — Rachel Dratch

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“When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in the air to be taken, and to lose the sense that somebody once made it.” — Graham Swift

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“I think the Mother is gradually revealing itself to me and taking over. But it is not the Mother alone. It is the Mother and the Father, the male and the female, sort of gradually having their marriage.” — Bede Griffiths

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“Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most popular site in the world.” — Mike Fitzpatrick

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“Traditionally, Medicare's assurance has been that for the elderly and persons with disabilities that they will not be alone when confronted with the full burden of their health care costs.” — Mike Fitzpatrick

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“For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop.” — Itzhak Perlman

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“Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.” — Edwin Way Teale

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“I don't like to produce albums. I hate producing albums, as a matter of fact, because I'm an obsessed mixer and I can't leave it alone.” — David Friedman

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“When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube.” — Clifford Stoll

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“My brother and Lauren are very close with me and they are in Sun Valley, so sometimes I need to go there and feel their presence. And there are times I need to see my bro' alone.” — Picabo Street

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“Let there be no mistake. A gay man alone could never begin to replicate the inner workings of the female mind.” — Michael Patrick King

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“We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.” — Maurice Maeterlinck

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