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" 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.' "

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" In a household tragedy, you are very much aware of being alone. It is something that is possible to grasp, and that is why it hurts so much. Because you are alone. I know a little about this. "

Per Petterson

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You

" The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold. "

" I secretly enjoy being alone - hiking alone, skiing alone, walking along the beach alone, going to movies alone. Do not get me wrong, I like sharing my life with other people, but sometimes I really enjoy being as alone as possible. "

" A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when they're all alone, there's nothing. "

" There is no doubt that because I am a switch hitter I have one of the best offensive advantages that a hitter can have. "

" I couldn't handle the rules the Queen has to live by at all, and very few of us could. It's a golden cage, really. You're never alone in that role - you are always surrounded by security. "

" There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it. "

Knut Hamsun

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" Man cannot live by incompetence alone. "

" I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature. "

Caspar David Friedrich

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" People with handicaps teach me that being is more important than doing, the heart is more important than the mind, and caring together is better than caring alone. "

Henri Nouwen

Alone

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" I love being on the road with others, with a camera, but also being alone writing poetry. "

" It's an amazing feeling to go into a studio and really be alone. "

Joaquin Phoenix

Feeling

Amazing

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

" Sometimes, when I'm alone, I put on six inch heels and wear nothing else and dance around in front of the mirror and do my little stripper dance. "

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

" You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people. "

" Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Live

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" I'm not sure Mark McGwire was a Hall of Famer to begin with. "

" I have my best ideas when I am alone. "

Leona Lewis

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" I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one. "

" Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better. "

Horatio Nelson

Know

Surgeon

" Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. "

" In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence. "

" 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?' "

" Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. "

" I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script. "

" In 1969, when I was still living in London, I had gone with some friends to see 'Easy Rider' in a movie theater in Piccadilly Circus and had returned alone some days later to see it again. It was Jack's combination of ease and exuberance that had captured me from the moment he had come on-screen. "

Anjelica Huston

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Living

" No one is alone, and each change here brings about another change there. "

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

" 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. "