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" 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. "

Brendan Gleeson

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" My classmates could see I was not similar. So they made me their scapegoat. They hit me or locked me in the toilets. During the break, I would take refuge in the chapel, or I would arrange to stay alone in the classroom. "

Yves Saint Laurent

" I was watching the Nina Simone documentary alone in my room, and I said out loud to myself, 'Why do we not know that this woman is beauty? She is beauty! Why did no one tell me this growing up? Why was her name not next to 'beauty' in the dictionary?' "

Tracee Ellis Ross

" Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way. "

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

" You can't change the world alone - you will need some help - and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them. "

William H. McRaven

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" Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think. "

Marshall McLuhan

" It was because of Henderson that I stayed... It was he and he alone who kept me in Toronto and in Canada. Were it not for Henderson, I believe insulin would have been a product of the United States. "

Frederick Banting

" Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so. "

" Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone. "

" In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn. "

" People assume NFL cheerleaders are within some vague sniffing distance of the good life, but a Ben-Gal is paid seventy-five bucks per game. That is correct: seventy-five bucks for each of ten home games. The grand cash total per season does not keep most of them flush in hair spray, let alone gas money to and from practice. "

Jeanne Marie Laskas

" 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. "

" He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbor. "

" The doer alone learneth. "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" I get unhappy doing things that I'm not passionate about. Because I feel like I'm squandering this incredible gift I've been given to finance films. As soon as my name alone was enough to make this happen, I vowed to myself that I was going to work with directors who were changing cinema, doing something important, you know? "

Leonardo DiCaprio

" The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be. "

" We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease. "

" People reveal so much of their mental processes online, simply because the psychological effect of anonymity just means that a whole raft of inhibitions are left alone when people log on. "

" Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it. "

" Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself. "

" My favorite hobby is being alone. I like to be alone. I also like dancing, fishing, playing poker sometimes and vegetable gardening - corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, I have a big garden every year. "

Emanuel Steward

" I have a lot of friends, but my biggest fear is loneliness. I miss my family in Mumbai, and my biggest nightmare every day is to go back home alone. "

Deepika Padukone

" One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. "

W. E. B. Du Bois

" Every person remembers some moment in their life where they witnessed some injustice, big or small, and looked away because the consequences of intervening seemed too intimidating. But there's a limit to the amount of incivility and inequality and inhumanity that each individual can tolerate. I crossed that line. And I'm no longer alone. "

" The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass. "

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

" 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. "

" Some women succeed at being strong and also tender, but most of those who have intended to walk alone, making their own way, have lost their happiness. "

Elsa Schiaparelli

" My mother is quite a woman. She would push me, and when I got tired of her pushing, I'd say: 'Leave me alone. Don't push so much.' "

Laurence Fishburne

" You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends. "

William Butler Yeats

" Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. "

" I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone. "