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" 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

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" You aren't going to leave me alone are you? "

" Remember we're all in this alone. "

" I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone. "

Rainer Maria Rilke

" Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self. "

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

" For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad. "

" I always wanted to play a cowboy. I just didn't get to do it the way I thought I would. "

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" My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. "

Abraham Lincoln

" The battle to find a workplace that's wheelchair accessible is a feat in itself, let alone an employer who's going to be cool about employing someone with a disability in a job you actually want to do. "

" I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go, what? It's so absurd. I'm alone. "

" 'Apocalypse Now' was my craziest experience ever. I was 14 years old, and I'd lied about my age to get the role. I haven't had another film top it. "

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

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

" I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution. "

" If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone. "

" That can be the most painstaking aspect of being a teen, figuring out what the world really looks like. If you find someone in a book, you know you're not alone and that's what's so comforting about books. "

Laurie Halse Anderson

" Adultery is the ultimate deal-breaker for me. I would rather be alone than in a relationship that doesn't honor me. "

Garcelle Beauvais

" Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone. "

" All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru. "

" Ants can live together in solidarity and forget themselves in the community. In a normative capitalist society, everyone is an egoist. In the ants' civilization, you are part of the group; you don't live for yourself alone. "

" He travels the fastest who travels alone. "

Rudyard Kipling

" The U.N. guards the vital principles entrenched in its charter, notably the sovereign equality of states and the inadmissibility of interference in their internal affairs. It is precisely because the U.N. is the chief guardian of both these sacrosanct principles that it alone is allowed to approve derogations from them. "

" A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. "

Henry David Thoreau

" Just remember, you are not alone, in fact you are in a very common place with millions of others. We need to help each other and keep striving to reach our goals. "

" When I realized I was depressed, then I started reading up about it. When I read that one in four people are depressed, I felt that I'm not the only one. I also felt that how many people must be feeling suffocated to fight this battle all alone. I just wanted to reach out and tell them that even I'm like you, and it's okay if you feel like that. "

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" Books have the power to be the light we are seeking at crucial moments in our lives. Reading helps us realize we are not alone, that we can change our circumstances and even achieve the impossible. "

" You're only lonely if you're not there for you. "

" What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union. "

Mary Harris Jones

" 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. "

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