Left Alone Quotes - Page 5

• To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Art, Philosophy, Hell

  Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft (1969). “Retrospectives and Conclusions”

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• You shouldn't be told you're completely irresponsible and be left alone with too much medication. It's too easy to forget. You take a couple of sleeping pills and you wake up in twenty minutes and forget you've taken them. So you take a couple more, and the next thing you know you've taken too many.

  Judy Garland

  Couple, Taken, Sleep

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• I enjoy fame except when I'm with my daughter. Kids stop me all the time and I don't want her to be jealous of the attention. Also, sometimes I just want to be left alone and I refuse to make rubber faces. That's when they start asking, What's the matter, man, don't you like your job? I say, Yeah, I like my job. But I also like having sex, and I'm not going to do that in front of you either.

  Jim Carrey

  Daughter, Jobs, Sex

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• And then my editor really likes that because he's left alone to do what...to create those things instead of me breathing over his shoulder and I like it because I don't have to sit in the editing room all day. I get to watch just dailies.

  Nicholas Stoller

  Editing, Breathing, Editors

  Source: collider.com

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• Left alone with our own heads on, we can be pretty mental.

  Tony Adams

  England, Left

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• A great way to be left alone on the subway is to appear to be deep in conversation with a small knife.

  Dana Gould

  Knives, Way, Conversation

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• Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate. Embryonic bonfires, each bearing a seed of destruction so potent it could tumble cities and dash kings to their knees.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Running, Kings, Men

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.369, Macmillan

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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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• The right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Men, Liberty, Libertarian

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• What is it that an artist does when he is left alone in his studio? My conclusion was that if I was an artist and I was in the studio, then everything I was doing in the studio should be art . . . . From that point on, art became more of an activity and less of a product.

  Bruce Nauman

  Art, Doe, Should

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• Im always happy when Im left alone, but if somebody comes and is nice, then we talk.

  Maximilian Schell

  Nice, Always Happy, Ifs

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• I am with the South in life or death, in victory or defeat. I believe the North is about to wage a brutal and unholy war on a people who have done them no wrong, in violation of the Constitution and the fundamental principles of government. They no longer acknowledge that all government derives its validity from the consent of the governed. They are about to invade our peaceful homes, destroy our property, and murder our men and dishonor our women. We propose no invasion of the North, no attack on them, and only ask to be left alone.

  Patrick Cleburne

  War, Believe, Home

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• Things do not get better by being left alone.

  Winston Churchill

  Get Better, Action, Left

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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• The ocean will take care of this on its own if it was left alone and left out there. It's natural. It's as natural as the ocean water is.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Ocean, Water

  "Regime SWAT Teams Sent to Gulf". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. Apr 29, 2010.

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• I was more than anything a radical. I was more sympathetic to Malcolm X than Martin Luther King because Malcolm X was more of a radical who was willing to confront discrimination in ways that I thought it should be confronted, including perhaps the use of violence. But I really just wanted to be left alone. I thought some laws, like minimum-wage laws, helped poor people and poor black people and protected workers from exploitation. I thought they were a good thing until I was pressed by professors to look at the evidence.

  Walter E. Williams

  Kings, Law, People

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• If you fill your time as a director talking about lights and technique with the crew then it's frightening for the actors to be left alone. Somebody has to keep them safe from the mess that is the machinery.

  Pirjo Honkasalo

  Talking, Light, Safe

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• If there is one thing that, as a director, you don't want to be a part of, it's a group. It's the same thing with music. I don't want to be a part of a scene. Just leave me alone. It's just my nature, and it's nothing against the people that are in that group, but I just like to be left alone.

  Rob Zombie

  People, Leave Me Alone, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone. But I've also gone to Chicago. I've gone to Detroit. I've been to Ferguson, I've been to Baltimore, because I want our party to be bigger, better and bolder...

  Rand Paul

  Party, Cutting, Years

  Rand Paul during GOP primary debate at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• Expose yourself to aloneness. When a person is left alone, he starts thinking of higher reality - about death, life, soul, God and the mystery of all.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Reality, Thinking, Soul

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• I play football, and most football players are camera shy. We just want to be left alone; we just want to stick to what we do.

  Reggie Bush

  Football, Player, Cameras

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• When a poet writes a poem, meaning arises - because the poet is not alone; he has created something. When a dancer dances, meaning arises. When a mother gives birth to a child, meaning arises. Left alone, cut off from everything else, isolated like an island, you are meaningless. Joined together you are meaningful. The bigger the whole, the bigger is the meaning.

  Rajneesh

  Motivational, Meaningful, Mother

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• Now the dressing-room full of RSC hierarchy. Suddenly Trevor Nunn pushes his way through and 'Trevs' me. I've heard a lot about this 'Trevving', but never had it done to me. From what I'd heard, a 'Trev' is an arm round your shoulder and a sideways squeeze. But this 'Trev' is a full frontal hug, so complete and so intimate that the dressing-room instantly clears, as if by suction. I'm left alone in the arms of this famous man wondering whether it's polite to let go.

  Antony Sher

  Letting Go, Men, Hug

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• I have never felt comfortable around people who talk about their feelings for Jesus, or any other deity for that matter, because they are usually none too bright... Or maybe "stupid" is a better way of saying it; but I have never seen much point in getting heavy with either stupid people or Jesus freaks, just as long as they don't bother me. In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone. They will not inherit the earth, but then neither will I.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Jesus, Stupid, Long

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.489, Pan Macmillan

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• The big thing with all parents is they just want to be left alone. I want no demands. That's the best gift for Father's Day, just leave them alone.

  Terry Crews

  Father, Parent, Demand

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Let them get at the books themselves, and do not let them be flooded with diluted talk from the lips of their teacher. The less the parents 'talk-in' and expound their rations of knowledge and thought to the children they are educating, the better for the children...Children must be allowed to ruminate, must be left alone with their own thoughts.

  Charlotte Mason

  Teacher, Children, Book

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