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“Having not really written any generational songs - I think maybe two or three of the songs that I've ever written have any bearing on the age of the listener. My stuff tends to be far more concerned with the spiritual and with subjects like isolation and being miserable.”

Thinking Two Age Spiritual Song Three Stuff Written Subjects Concerned Miserable Isolation Listeners

Author:David Bowie

“The cave is a dark, shadowy place. It's a place that's very close and yet distant at the same time, and it's a place of revelation and isolation. Your form, your body, your writing is your confinement.”

Writing Body Form Dark Your Body Revelations Isolation Caves Confinement

Author:Gerald Stern

“Country [China] needs to continue opening up and keep connecting. It needs to realize that the world has become one. The old concept of isolation, the idea that you can solve your problems on your own does not work anymore - neither in cultural, economic, nor political terms.”

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Author:Zhang Xin

“Isolation means a lack of growth. I grew up in China at a time when the country was completely isolated. That era is over.”

Mean Country Growth Grew Grew Up China Eras Isolation Isolated

Author:Zhang Xin

“For writers, so much is done in isolation. It can be easy to feel detached, or to get a little lost along the way.”

Way Feels Littles Done Lost Easy Isolation Detached

Author:Brad Listi

“Isolation, but it's a good vulnerability. Humbling. I actually seek out solitude.”

Solitude Vulnerability Isolation Humbling

Author:Brendan Dooling

“There has been, for some reason (or more likely an unfortunate accumulation of reasons) a trend over the past several decades for parents to do the work of parenting in the isolation of their own homes - and not only that, this trend has overlapped with the other trend of much deeper parent involvement in raising kids. That you also represent trend No. 3, more people raising kids solo, has only exacerbated a close-to-no-win situation.”

People Has Beens Reason Home Kids Past Winning Parent Situation Deeper Decades Isolation Trends Unfortunate Solo Involvement Accumulation Over The Past Raising Kids

Author:Carolyn Hax

“If you were a nerd computer geek in 1982, the amount of isolation you felt - at least what I experienced, or the kids I knew, the isolation they felt - was almost total. They were not part of society; no one thought they were cool.”

Ifs Kids Felt Amount Computer Isolation Nerd Geek

Author:Junot Diaz

“But if you'd only ever lived in small wooden house in the middle of wilderness, it sounded much better. Especially because it provided intense community, and these people lived in incredible isolation.”

People Ifs House Community Middle Incredibles Intense Isolation Wilderness Wooden House

Author:Christine Jennings

“I think that there is a real beauty to the live aspect of the theater, and the working with a director for a month on a script in the isolation of a room and really deeply delving into who are these people, what is the story we're telling, how do we want to tell it?”

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Author:Karen Allen

“I slightly feel, having written Paraguay and Newfoundland - and both of them have developed eccentricities through isolation - I am quite relieved to be back in France and Germany, and I want people to enjoy these books for the writing and not because they feel they can laugh - some will laugh - at these eccentric places, that's not what I intend.”

People Want Feels Writing Book Enjoy Laughing Written France Germany Isolation Eccentric Relieved Eccentricity Paraguay

Author:John Gimlette

“I was also thinking about isolation on an evolutionary scale as well, like when you think of an island like Madagascar where things are free to evolve unfettered by outside powers. That starts to reach into the underlying narrative, which is more of a literal story that I used as a construct to build songs around.”

Thinking Wells Stories Used Song Scales Evolve Narrative Islands Isolation Constructs Literal Madagascar

Author:Colin Stetson

“I guess there are a lot of people out there that think they're supposed to define themselves in isolation, but that's not necessarily the case.”

People Thinking Cases Isolation

Author:Feist

“The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition.”

Worst Conditions Isolation Isolated Worst Things

Author:Annie Lennox

“Success, to me, is helping one person or many people counter the isolation and pseudoconnectivity of our lives by boosting their ability to connect to themselves and to others.”

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Author:Esther Perel

“Yoga's most sublime objective is to awaken an exalted state of spiritual realization; however, the tradition also recognizes that this state does not exist in absolute isolation from the world and worldly matters.”

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Author:Rod Stryker

“I want to know what you're thinking, you want to know what I'm thinking. But we're alone. In our own minds. We're trapped in this sort of isolation.”

Thinking Knows Want Mind Isolation Trapped

Author:Wayne Coyne

“Isolation and loneliness create the conditions for rapid aging. The key is to stay connected and open to new relationships throughout your life.”

Conditions Loneliness Keys Aging Connected Isolation Rapids New Relationship Isolation And Loneliness

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Losing friends and spouses is an inevitable part of aging, and many people have a tendency to go quietly into semi-isolation. Instead, set your intention on expanding and deepening the love in your life.”

People Losing Aging Intention Tendencies Inevitable Isolation Spouse Expanding Losing Friends

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Losing a son, losing a daughter, a brother, a sister, losing a close friend - it can go beyond grief to isolation and feeling despair.”

Feelings Grief Son Brother Despair Losing Daughter Isolation Close Friends

Author:Tim Kaine

“Caffeine helps a lot. That and a certain amount of isolation.”

Helping Certain Amount Isolation Caffeine

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“I think any show has the potential to bring about social change. I do not think any one show in isolation can do it. I think it is a groundswell that needs to continue to be bolstered from all ends.”

Thinking Needs Ends Shows Social Can Do Isolation Social Change

Author:Trevor Noah

“I believe that a country, Russia in this case, which can defend the honour and dignity of its citizens, protect their lives, and fulfill its international legal commitments under the peacekeeping mandate, will not find itself in isolation, no matter what our partners in Europe or the United States may think, expressing their bloc mentality.”

“This, for instance, is what Egon Bahr said on June 26, 1990: "If we do not now undertake clear steps to prevent a division of Europe, this will lead to Russia's isolation."Bahr, a wise man, had a very concrete suggestion as to how this danger could be averted.”

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Author:Vladimir Putin

“We don't live abundant and happy lives in isolation or by being takers. So by giving away your purpose to others, you will find that others want to GIVE to you, too.”

Want Giving Purpose Isolation Happy Life

Author:Mastin Kipp

“This is how the world changes - little by little, table by table, meal by meal, hour by hour. This is how we chip away at isolation, loneliness, fear. This is how we connect, in big and small ways - we do it around the table.”

World Way Littles Bigs Hours Loneliness Tables Meals Isolation Chips

Author:Shauna Niequist

“There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.”

Looks Individual Focus Risk Security Investment Tendencies Isolation Investors

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“People buy things in isolation and don't think of how they work together.”

People Thinking Together Isolation Working Together

Author:Michael S. Smith

“It takes isolation and solitude for me to write.”

Writing Solitude Isolation

Author:Taylor Momsen

“To really be of benefit to others as the Buddha always taught, we ourselves must first get out of the swamp. One of the quickest and most effective ways to do this is in isolation, with very few distractions, working very hard at it and spending all your time and efforts at changing your mind.”

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Author:Tenzin Palmo

“I used to live in a little city by the sea, and the feeling of isolation - it was not like living in Paris or London. It was a bit apart from the main city, and [it gave me] this feeling of isolation and also being close to nature, with nature as a surrounding and also a frontier, from the society of the world.”

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Author:Lucile Hadzihalilovic

“I noticed that when I was on Prozac my relationship with the landscape improved. I actually stopped thinking about myself for a minute or two, because most of the thoughts one has about oneself are involved with desire or loneliness or isolation or strategies to overcome them.”

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Author:Leonard Cohen

“We are awakening from the dream of isolation, from the dream of loneliness, and it's a terrible shock.”

Dream Loneliness Terrible Awakening Isolation Shock

Author:Leonard Cohen

“[Mikhail Bakunin] expectations were generally confirmed, including his prediction that some would seek to gain state power on the backs of popular revolution, then constructing a "Red bureaucracy" that would be one of the worst tyrannies in history, while others would recognize that power lies elsewhere and would serve as its apologists, becoming mystifies, "disablers," and managers while demanding the right to function in "technocratic isolation," in World Bank lingo.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“Finally, ultimately, you write music for yourself. I mean, I need a public, I need people to play, I need everything else. I'm not working in isolation. But finally the man that writes the music is alone. And I have to respond to those criteria which are almost like inner needs or inner responses.”

People Men Needs Writing Mean Play He Man Music Is Response Isolation Criteria

Author:Philip Glass

“I had a very depressing response because I realized that these were my own people, these were Negroes throwing eggs at me. I'm concerned about the fact that maybe all of us have contributed to this by not working harder to get rid of the conditions, the poverty, the social isolation, and all of the conditions that cause individuals to respond like this.”

People Facts Individual Social Causes My Own Poverty Conditions Concerned Harder Response I Realized Isolation Eggs Throwing Depressing Very Depressing Social Isolation

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Music does not exist in isolation, it is rooted in the political, the social, the cultural. We need to remember this at all times, and especially in these times! Our voices have never been so very critical.”

Needs Doe Remember Political Social Voice Critical All Time Isolation Rooted

Author:Lawrence English

“I think most writers would like a quiet space, complete isolation, in which they control their own time. Spaces of creativity in which there's very little interruption.”

Thinking Littles Space Creativity Quiet Isolation Interruptions Quiet Space

Author:Wole Soyinka

“Acting alone in a world that's alive in political stirring is to condemn oneself to isolation and probably protracted warfare of the kind that can be dissipating.”

World Kind Political Acting Alive Oneself Isolation Warfare Stirring

Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski

“Trump might well choose to renege on US obligations (so much for the sanctity of contracts!) and no doubt he would have the agreement of Zionist politicians like Schumer. But the consequences will be the increased isolation of the US - particularly from Europe, whose businesses will just move into Iran while US companies will lose out.”

Wells Might Moving Loses Company Doubt Trump Politician Consequence Europe Obligation No Doubt Isolation Agreement Iran Contracts Sanctity Zionist

Author:Lawrence Davidson

“I've been a writer and a parent since adolescence, it feels like, and I'm still making both gigs up as I go along. I did both in different forms of isolation - too young by conventional standards, too far off-grid culturally and geographically. So my experience is probably too specific to be useful. None of us do this stuff the same way. We just try to endure and press on, I guess.”

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Author:Tim Winton

“There are numerous issues that governments used to deal with that they now no longer deal with to the same extent: Prisons have been privatized in a number of countries; education and health are becoming privatized. Governments don't have the capacity to deliver - or not in isolation.”

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Author:Mary Robinson

“The London music world isn't a particularly cohesive place. And when I'm composing, I'm not very friendly. I need isolation.”

World Needs London Isolation Friendly Composing

Author:George Benjamin

“I think people are lonely and desperate for attention and unemployed and bored. I don't mean that these are losers that live with their mom, although that is true for many of these people. I think people in general are literally underemployed and lonely and bored in this country because of the economic downturn, and because of the isolation that's available because of the internet. The internet has both freed people up to connect with each other and isolated them.”

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Author:Moshe Kasher

“Disability strips away complacency. Affliction is brutal, but it can also push vital questions to the fore. The afflicted body becomes a site of otherness, confusion, isolation, watchfulness, longing. One becomes keenly aware of the impersonality of brute matter, but at the same time there is often a raw, mistrustful desire for gentleness, connection.”

Desire Longing Confusion Isolation Disability Brutal Gentleness Complacency

Author:Laurie Sheck

“This neglect of a very important Brazilian writer is, in my view, the result of Brazil's relative isolation from what metropolitan tastemakers. If João Gilberto Noll were writing in French or German or even Russian, it's likely he'd be more broadly translated.”

Writing Important Isolation Neglect Relative

Author:Adam Morris

“I received compassion from the people I deserved it least from when I least deserved it, and that helped change me. When you take fear and isolation and put grievance on top, it's all too easy for people to hate and blame somebody else for their problems.”

People Problem Hate Easy Compassion Blame Isolation Grievance

Author:Christian Picciolini

“Britain is economically very closely integrated with its European partner countries. Were these ties to be cut, it would be a huge step backwards for the country and would weaken it considerably. In the era of globalisation, "splendid isolation" is not a smart option.”

Country Cutting Smart Isolation Backwards Integrated Globalisation

Author:Wolfgang Schauble

“Right now we have millions of people in our country who are suffering in isolation, thinking that they are the only ones who are dealing with drug addiction, who don't realize that on their own block there are other people and families. They think they're alone and they think they're going to be judged and they don't want to talk about it. But when people do come forward and share their stories it's incredibly liberating, and it gives other people permission to tell their stories too.”

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Author:Vivek Murthy

“The most important issues to address are the truly existential threats we face: climate change and nuclear war. On the former, the Republican leadership, in splendid isolation from the world, is almost unanimously dedicated to destroying the chances for decent survival; strong words, but no exaggeration. There is a great deal that can be done at the local and state level to counter their malign project.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

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