- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
Isolation Quotes
Distance, felt in different directions.
Music is described here as constant company against isolation, whether the goal is companionship or simply being left alone with one's thoughts. Broader concerns about isolation on a national or artistic scale echo through our Loneliness collection.
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- Slow
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- Nov 07, 2020
The comics work is very slow, and it basically involves working for sometimes years in isolation and not knowing how the work is going to be received.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm writing, I'm in an isolation chamber. I'm not one to think about that outside world stuff when I'm writing.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
- Loss
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether for company or isolation or just to make it a pleasurable experience, I have music in my ears all the time. I tend to listen to the same things, so I don't really pay too much attention to it. But it's there, and it's nice, and I do pay more attention to it than I probably should. I think, 'How can I use this music in something?'
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
From 1949 to 1953, I studied towards the diploma in Natural Sciences at the Swiss Polytechnical School in Zurich. It is in the last year of this study that I made my first contacts with fundamental research, when working on the isolation and characterization of a new isomer of Cl34 with a half-life of 1.5 seconds.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today the arts exist in isolation, from which they can be rescued only through the conscious, cooperative effort of all craftsmen. Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts.
- Nov 07, 2020
Greater technological connectivity makes the world wider, and the walls of isolation - thinner.
- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing that you make in the world exists in isolation from the social and political and ecological dimensions of it.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I urge North Korea's leaders to reflect on Burma's experience. While the work of reform is ongoing, Burma has already broken out of isolation and opened the door to a far better future for its people.
- False Sense
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- Nov 07, 2020