“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.”
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“Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.”
“We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.”
“You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.”
“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.”
“I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.”
“I've always been shocked and waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop that a girl would ever talk to me, let alone want to marry me. They always seem to hold the power to me, and from my mother to my wife to my daughter, every time I try to really figure them out, and think I've got them pegged, I pay for it.”
“I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone.”
“Most photographers work best alone, myself included.”
“It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.”
“No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.”
“Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.”
“The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.”
“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.”
“What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.”
“For a while I couldn't leave the house by myself. Even if I was just grocery shopping alone, I'd get self-conscious.”
“Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.”
“Let there be no mistake. A gay man alone could never begin to replicate the inner workings of the female mind.”
“The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation.”
“Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.”
“I think Alone in the Dark was too much an action creature movie than a horror creature movie.”
“When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube.”
“I like to have a massage therapist come to my house, get a massage, take a bath, go to bed. That's a perfect night alone for me.”
“I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company.”