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- Nov 07, 2020
Alone Quotes
Alone doesn't always mean lonely.
The quotes here move between scientific uncertainty and personal isolation, including one reflection on feeling apart from mainstream family values and another on how loud music once made solitude bearable. For a shareable line, see our Status page.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There has to be an interaction of musicians on stage. Otherwise I feel too alone up there. When performing is really good, when it really works, maybe once every 15 shows, it's very special, and you realize that's why you do it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
After a life deprived of everything from romantic love to the choice of when to wake up in the morning, after 29 years without the ability to have a career or even to be alone at toilet, the Bijani sisters are not symbols but women who have had to live a shared life of constant, quotidian sacrifice.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the laughing times we know that we are lucky, and in the quiet times we know that we are blessed. And we will not be alone.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was alone a lot as a kid, because my parents were divorced.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go, what? It's so absurd. I'm alone.
- Funniest Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm shooting in Brooklyn, we've got all kinds of crap going on, and I'm all alone now in a big hotel suite that you can't believe the size of it and a thing sticks in my foot and I just think it's the funniest thing that's ever happened to me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'.
- Survive
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order to survive, you have to be alone with yourself to regenerate the spirit.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song and share it with my family and then we all would figure out instrumentation together.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Logic obviously is important. You need to be able to figure things out, to go to the end of a particular problem. But intuition is very important because it references things that logic alone cannot.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damn thing. It only leads to violence and pain.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that when you are experiencing failure, it's pretty damn painful. It is easy in retrospect to wax poetic about it. But in the moment, you don't think you will survive, let alone have the time to reflect on how valuable those lessons will be for you in the future.
- Challenges
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- Nov 07, 2020
The power of the individual, market forces, and the private sector permeate our lives. With that power comes responsibility to address huge challenges. Climate change cannot be solved by governments alone. Xenophobia, hatred, and intolerance - more business leaders have to play a role in trying to be positive leaders, civic leaders.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020