“I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.”
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“Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.”
“Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers - and before it can be his, it is hers alone.”
“The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.”
“You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.”
“For the first time, I lived alone... in a luxury apartment on Sunset Strip. For a few days I loved the idea, but I got lonely and restless.”
“People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.”
“The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.”
“In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!”
“At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.”
“Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.”
“What good is sitting all alone in your room?”
“A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.”
“Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.”
“The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain - are in the middle class.”
“The problems that the world faces - from nuclear proliferation to climate change - can't be tackled by the West alone. They need a coalition of not just West and East, but they need a coalition of Christian and Jew and Muslim.”
“This is nourishing, redemptive we become less alone inside.”
“I would say, 'I'm alone, but I'm not lonely.' But I was just kidding myself.”
“He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.”
“I used to do a lot of interviews in the early '80s, when my career started, but it came to a point when I decided I didn't want to talk anymore, and people kind of understood that and left me alone.”
“So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.”
“Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.”
“You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.”
“It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask.”