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" No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person. "

Bernadette Peters

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" I know that when I'm standing alone below a thousand-foot wall, looking up and considering a climb, my sponsors are the furthest thing from my mind. If I'm going to take risks, they are going to be for myself - not for any company. "

" 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. "

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" Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire. "

" And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light. "

" A lot of people prefer to be alone. They would rather be a palm tree on an island. I don't get it. "

" Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside. "

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" We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone. "

" Originally, technology was pretty clearly on the side of introversion. It allowed introverts to connect with people, to express their ideas in a less stimulating way: you're sitting alone behind a computer. But I'm starting to think that the pressure to self-present constantly online is becoming so extreme. "

" Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. "

" Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power. "

Alfred Lord Tennyson

" You can't fake it when you're alone with God, you know. "

" Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. "

" It was funny being at high school and also grocery shopping and having a job. Other kids were going home to their parents, who were doing their laundry, and I was like, 'Wait, what?' I was super isolated. I was 16, alone in New York, and modelling. "

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" If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made. "

Margaret Thatcher

" I'm not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star, I say leave me alone, I'm not a rock star. I'm not in it for the fame, I'm in it because I like to play. "

Eddie Van Halen

" I would say, 'I'm alone, but I'm not lonely.' But I was just kidding myself. "

" Global poverty is a complex web of interlinked problems. There is no one 'silver bullet' that will solve global inequality. Multiple contributing factors must be tackled in parallel. Yes, education alone is unlikely to lead to employment without economic reform to address the demand side in much of the developing world. "

" Hiking is the best workout!... You can hike for three hours and not even realize you're working out. And, hiking alone lets me have some time to myself. "

" I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world. "

" It took living alone for me to really get to know myself. "

" After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again. "

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