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" Experience was my only teacher; I knew little of the modern art movement. When I first saw the works of the Impressionists, van Gogh, van Dongen, and Fauves, I admired it. But I had to seek the true way alone. "

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" Sometimes, being different feels a lot like being alone. But with that being said, being true to that and being true to my standards and my way of doing things in my art and my music, everything that has made me feel very different... in the end, it has made me the happiest. "

Lindsey Stirling

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" Comedy and politics have a lot in common. Both are great ways to pick up chicks - just look at Governor Spitzer. Or Ellen Degeneres. Both require spending time on the road meeting strangers who often have the desire to throw things at you. Both are difficult, if not impossible, to do all alone. And both rely heavily on personality. "

" The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them. "

" Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences. "

" A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

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" Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster. "

" David - the man after God's own heart - was a man of war and a mighty man of valour. When all Israel were on the run, David faced Goliath - alone... with God - and he but a stripling, and well scolded, too, by his brother for having come to see the battle. "

" I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest. "

Marilyn Monroe

Night

Alone

" I'm a big fan of Daniel Day-Lewis. He's a marvelous actor. He stands alone, I think. "

" Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I'm a regular talking machine. It's all or nothing for me. "

" When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone. "

" Instead of candidates hiring people, like yours truly, to create campaign media that works on both conscious and subconscious levels to sway the voting public, what if all TV ads were, by law, only allowed to feature the candidate, with, say, the American flag as the backdrop, alone, speaking directly to the camera? "

" The drive toward Life is protective, thoughtful, vulnerable, and invested in immaculate love. It is this last that marks the difference between a wise heart muddy with real life experiences in the trenches and a dry heart that functions on rote concepts alone. "

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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Drive

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" I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing. "

" It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone. "

" I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life. "

" Solitude vivifies; isolation kills. "

" Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand? "

" An inspiration - a long, deep breath of the pure air of thought - could alone give health to the heart. "

" One of the odd enjoyments in life is to be alone in a room full of people. To have them there as unknowing human filler in your wide shot. "

" Alone I'm nothing. "

Robert Plant

Alone

Nothing

" We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free. "

" There is no need for nuclear. The world can be powered by wind, water and sun alone. "

" The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space. "

" We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely. "

" I had a lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit and imagine things, all the time. "

" I have a strong belief that there is a god or a higher power. I think that if you have a strong belief in that, then you won't feel alone in life and you will feel you can get through anything. "

" We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order. "

" The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone. "

" If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm sure. If I'm busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil's playground. "