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" I do love my country. I don't think I'm particularly a good American. I don't know what makes a good American. Other than somebody who - I like people who let other people alone. I think that's a pretty good American. And I keep my hands to myself. So I'm an OK American. "

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You

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" Freedom of being alone is intoxicating. "

" As a farm girl, even when I was quite young, I had my 'farm chores' - but I had time also to be alone, to explore the fields, woods and creek side. And to read. "

" The irony is that the more specific you are in the portrayal of character, the more like other people you are. In the same way, the more you think about how alone you are in this life, you realise how much a brother and sister everyone else is. "

" Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay. "

" I identify with my womanhood before anything else because that's what I deal with when I am alone. "

" I think to be writer you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to characters in books and films who were at the fringes. "

" Sparky Anderson taught me this a long time ago: 'There's three ways you can treat a person. You can pat 'em on the butt, you can kick 'em in the butt, or you can leave 'em alone.' "

Pete Rose

You

Time

" The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other. "

" I have a doctorate in fine arts from Knox College in Illinois. All I did was give a speech, and now everybody has to call me Dr. Colbert. "

" But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist; the good are ever too luke-warm. "

Algernon H. Blackwood

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Good

Alone

" I think it's what art should do: make you feel less alone - either in the quest for truth or in dealing with any pain you have. "

" Crisis alone is not enough. There must also be a basis, though it need be neither rational nor ultimately correct, for faith in the particular candidate chosen. "

" You alone are enough. "

" It's not easy to come somewhere new and have to find your place. You might feel someone doesn't like you, or you might need to find new friends. It's not easy, and I don't like this kind of thing. It's not easy, so you want to protect the players who are alone. "

" I think a lot of kids feel alone and slightly isolated and in their own world. "

" Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. "

" You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself. "

" I'm a junkie for exhaustion, and I'm a junkie for setting up my expectations too high and then trying to meet them. "

Stephen Colbert

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" Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either. "

" The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion. "

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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" I feel most at home when I'm alone. That's not sad. It's just I feel closest to source and connection when I'm by myself. "

" You cannot go far alone. You enjoy your journey better if you have people by your side. "

" I may not have gone to high school every day, but I spent whole a lot of my adolescence feeling vulnerable and confused and alone... just like everybody else. "

" No phone. No pool. No pets. No cigarettes. Ultimate freedom... No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become Lost in the Wild. "

Christopher McCandless

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Lost

Wild

" You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others. "

" Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. "

" I'm so accustomed to being alone. "

" It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory. "

" He travels the fastest who travels alone. "