Left Alone Quotes - Page 3

• I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company.

  Don Henley

  Long, Records, Enough

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Both my husband and I give a lot of ourselves in what we do because that is our public lives but in my private life, I have an intrinsic right to be left alone.

  Ashley Judd

  Husband, Giving, Private Life

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• I've been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really don't have much interest in you. I'm still married, still working, still happy.

  Matt Damon

  Sex, Scandal, Married

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• Organizations should be built and managers should be functioning so people can be naturally empowered. If someone's doing their job, if someone's working in one of your warehouses, say, they should know their job better than anybody. They don't need to be 'empowered,' but encouraged and left alone to be able to do what they know best.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Jobs, Organization, People

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• Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; but all along while we live, it hath faithful company that adheres to it, and helps it. Love works, and hope works, and all other graces, — self-denial, readiness to the cross, — they all work and help faith. But when we come to die, faith is left alone. Now, try what faith will do.

  John Owen

  Leadership, Spiritual, Self

  "The Works of John Owen".

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• 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

  Coffee, Thinking, Doe

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• It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda.

  Jello Biafra

  Mean, Hands, Should Have

  "Nardwuar Vs. Jello Biafra: New Introduction by Kristen K.: Originally ran in Razorcake #08, 2002 By Nardwuar". Interview with Nardwuar, razorcake.org. 2002.

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• As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there, I wanted to make loads of money.

  Julie Burchill

  Children, Book, Two

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• I rarely feel the desire to reread a scene the day before the shooting. Sometimes I arrive at the place where the work is to be done and I do not even know what I am going to shoot. This is the system I prefer: to arrive at the moment when shooting is about to begin, absolutely unprepared, virgin. I often ask to be left alone on the spot for fifteen minutes or half an hour and I let my thoughts wander freely.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Desire, Done, Half

  "Autobiographical interview". Cahiers du Cinema Magazine, 1960.

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• Deep down, Erikson wants profoundly to be respected and admired - and very deep down he wants to be left alone.

  Stanley Hoffmann

  Solitude, Want, Erikson

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• I'm not very good at relaxing. Reading's the main thing. On the bus, on the tube, on the loo. Literally all the time. I mean, I don't think there's a moment of the day when I wouldn't be if I was left alone.

  Samuel West

  Reading, Mean, Thinking

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• Democrats believe people are basically good but must be saved from themselves by the government. Republicans believe people are basically bad but they'll be okay if they're left alone.

  Andy Rooney

  Believe, Government, People

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• Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Country, Laughter, Taken

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.49, Verso

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• Smith, as we have said, was not the proponent of any one class. He was a slave to his system. His whole economic philosophy stemmed from his unquestioning faith in the ability of the market to guide the system to its point of highest return. The market — that wonderful social machine — would take care of society's needs if it was left alone. "Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production," he wrote.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Letting Go, Philosophy, Class

  "The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers".

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• To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Faces, Crime, Retribution

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.820, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Long ago, when Harry had been left alone while the Dursley's went out to enjoy themselves, the hours of solitude had been a rare treat: Pausing only to sneak something tasty from the fridge, he had rushed upstairs to play on Dudley's computer, or put on the television and flicked through the channels to his heart's content. It gave him an odd empty feeling to remember those times; it was like remembering a younger brother whom he had lost.

  J. K. Rowling

  Brother, Life Lesson, Heart

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• I have a responsibility to nurture and shepherd my talent and when I'm living the parts of my life not related to that I feel I have the right to be left alone.

  Ashley Judd

  Responsibility, Shepherds, Talent

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• I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.

  Mary Oliver

  Left

  "Famously Private Poet Mary Oliver". Interview with Maria Shriver, www.oprah.com. March 9, 2011.

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• I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.

  Laura Marling

  Who I Am, Needs, Isolation

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.

  Henry Rollins

  Needs, My Own, Left

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• Everywhere we look, the world urges us to turn on the radio or TV, to make a phone call, to see a movie. Many of us fear, worry, that if left alone with our thoughts and feelings, we may discover that we do not make very good company for ourselves.

  James O. Freedman

  Fear, Phones, Worry

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• When I'm away from basketball, I'm the biggest kid. I do a good job of keeping myself sane. But on the other hand, I'm more of a solitary guy, glad to be left alone.

  Tim Duncan

  Basketball, Jobs, Kids

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• From 7 in the morning to 11 at night, I was reading. I don't think one can find any other time in one's life to be left alone so much to read in peace like that.

  Mohsen Makhmalbaf

  Morning, Reading, Night

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. It becomes easier to die and avoid conflict than to maintain a constant battle with the superior forces of maturity.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Maturity, Battle

  Maya Angelou (2009). “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, p.267, Random House

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• Like jilted and disappointed lovers, some of my students just want to be left alone.

  Kirsten Olson

  Learning, Want, Jilted

  Kirsten Olson (2015). “Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture”, p.67, Teachers College Press

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