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When I was paralysed by polio at 13, I went into an isolation hospital and couldn't sit up, so I only took liquid food from spouted cups which the masked nurses would bring in and feed to me. I saw my parents only through glass; we couldn't touch.
- Mary Berry
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I guess I'm attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And it's why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.
- Conor McPherson
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As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation.
- Earl Blumenauer
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I like the idea of isolation. I like the reality of it. You realize what you are... not that the knowledge is inevitably rewarding.
- Joseph Brodsky
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My own life was filled with so much love and joy that when depression struck, it was like a prison door slamming shut and I was being placed in an isolation cell. No one else could possibly be feeling what I was. I hated my depression and all of its symptoms.
- Susan Polis Schutz
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My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.
- Luke Ford
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I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.
- Paul Theroux
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Short of taking monastic vows or trekking into the Kalahari, a freighter passage might just offer what our relentlessly connected age has made difficult, if not impossible: splendid isolation.
- Christopher Buckley
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In television, there's this weird sense of isolation from your audience; you kind of get this feeling that you write the show for you and your wife and your friends and the other people who work on the show. It's our little show, and then it goes out into the world, and somebody watches it.
- Ronald D. Moore
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I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity.
- Elfriede Jelinek
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Whereas China has set about systematically striving for Olympic success since it re-entered global competition after years of isolation, India has remained complacent about its lack of sporting prowess.
- Shashi Tharoor
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And with each day that passed, the gulf broadened and my isolation became more accentuated. In such a situation, the discovery that my experience was not unique, that it had also been that of other Spanish intellectuals, became very important for me.
- Juan Goytisolo
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My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation - often elevated loneliness - to community. It may be a denigrated community that is filthy and poor, but they are not alone; they are with people.
- Chuck Palahniuk
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Discipline and unconditional support is earned by understanding and trust and inclusion. Not by isolation, not by nasty tricks.
- Colm Keaveney
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My obligation is to the owners of Barclays, my shareholders. They hired me. People who criticise compensation for individuals in isolation at, say, BarCap, individuals who don't work in the U.K. and are competing with U.S., German or Asian banks, they should look at all these factors.
- Bob Diamond
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I'm the only one in my family who is deaf, and there are still conversations that go around me that I miss out on. And I ask what's going on, and I have to ask to be included. But I'm not going to be sad about it. I don't live in sad isolation. It's just a situation I'm used to.
- Marlee Matlin
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Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in isolation.
- Edward M. Lerner
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In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas.
- John Millington Synge
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If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.
- Alex Steffen
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David Cameron wants people to believe that his isolation in Europe is a result of Britain being outnumbered when it matters most.
- Douglas Alexander
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All these dismal things that are going on in the world - the isolation and the sickness and the governments and the pollution - it's so frightful, over the whole world.
- Merce Cunningham
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As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.
- Ann Brashares
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No matter how you look at it, one person cannot be evaluated and paid in isolation of budgets.
- Steven Sinofsky
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'Mulk' is a film that needed to be made. We can no longer sweep the isolation of the Indian Muslim under the carpet.
- Anubhav Sinha
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The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.
- C. L. R. James
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I urge North Korea's leaders to reflect on Burma's experience. While the work of reform is ongoing, Burma has already broken out of isolation and opened the door to a far better future for its people.
- Thomas E. Donilon
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Let's be honest: The trade embargo with Cuba hasn't secured our interests or helped the Cuban people. Because the way to promote positive change and better human rights in Cuba is through engagement, not isolation.
- Amy Klobuchar
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It's important to have quiet time and isolation.
- John Burnside
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
- Halsey
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Ebola is a humiliating disease that strips you of your dignity. You are removed from family and put into isolation where you cannot even see the faces of those caring for you due to the protective suits - you can only see their eyes.
- Kent Brantly
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Greater technological connectivity makes the world wider, and the walls of isolation - thinner.
- Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
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Growing up in the icy isolation of Hibbing, Minn., Dylan, who was still Robert Allen Zimmerman then, found comfort in the country, blues, and early rock 'n' roll that he heard at night on a Louisiana radio station whose signal came in strong and clear.
- Robert Hilburn
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At the risk of sounding like a spoilsport, I'd say that pagans have about the same experience of otherness and isolation as anyone else. We're not special in that regard. But this is because the problem of loneliness is almost universal - and that, to my mind, makes it much more serious.
- Brendan Myers
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There is power in having a friend group because you have this bond that helps you navigate girl world, and it creates safety and self-esteem. But if you speak up to the leader, you risk that social isolation or not having a group and feeling really left out.
- Taylor Louderman
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Coming to know one another based on a shared humanity through dialogue is the key to breaking down the walls of isolation and reversing the decline of life-to-life bonds among human beings.
- Vinessa Shaw
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Africa should not again face isolation or stigmatisation based on ignorance and unrepresentative imagery.
- Mo Ibrahim
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When I did Google Wave, everyone had to be in Sydney, and a lot people actually traveled there to be part of it. There was a lot of isolation. There were a lot of things we kept secret from the company while working on Wave - just like you would at a startup.
- Lars Rasmussen
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There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not an easy thing to find in our world anymore. It's a unique place because it is so far away from the rest of the world. There is a sense of isolation and also being protected.
- Elijah Wood
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One could not have isolated this retrovirus without knowledge of other retroviruses, that's obvious. But I believe we have answered the criteria of isolation.
- Luc Montagnier
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
- Carlos Salinas de Gortari
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Isolation doesn't bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.
- Jimmy Page
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We feel no isolation. But, having said that, I want to emphasise in particular that we do not want to go to extremes and abandon the European and American directions in our foreign economic cooperation.
- Sergei Lavrov
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The comics work is very slow, and it basically involves working for sometimes years in isolation and not knowing how the work is going to be received.
- Adrian Tomine
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During the Second World War, nobody built any concert halls or theaters. After the war, Lincoln Center was a very brave project because all those architects had never built a theater before. We've learned a lot since then about the nature of materials and the isolation that's required.
- Hugh Hardy
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Israel is following policies which maximise its security threats... policies which choose expansion over security... policies which lead to their moral degradation, their isolation, their delegitimation, as they call it now, and very likely ultimate destruction. That's not impossible.
- Noam Chomsky
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There are moments in 'Body Snatchers' that touch the sort of thing that I find scary... like isolation and the inability to trust even familiar things. But - is that a horror movie - or a thriller? I don't really know the difference.
- Christine Elise
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The smallest wound or pain of the ego is examined under a microscope as if it were of eternal importance. The artist considers his isolation, his subjectivity, his individualism almost holy.
- Ingmar Bergman
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The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.
- Eleonora Duse
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I was not popular in school, and I was definitely not a ladies' man. And I had a very painful adolescence, because it was all very strange to me. It wasn't like I got beat up, but the humiliation and isolation, and the existential 'God, I exist, and nobody cares' of being a teenager were extremely pronounced for me.
- Joss Whedon
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Fixing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in isolation, without looking at the big picture, would be short-sighted.
- Bethany McLean
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At Pixar, of course, we have all these people, and they're just used to our process now where it's a discussion; it's a discovery. It's not individual artists going and fussing off by themselves in isolation and then handing their work in.
- Pete Docter
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As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of innovation.
- Steven Johnson
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Isolation is the one sure way to human happiness.
- Glenn Gould
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Because, ultimately, we can't just think of algorithms in isolation. We have to think of the failings of the people who design them - and the danger to those they are supposedly designed to serve.
- Hannah Fry
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Anyone in recovery knows that isolation is the biggest enemy.
- Ivan Moody
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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage. An unsegregated America might see poverty, and all its effects, spread across the country with no particular bias toward skin color. Instead, the concentration of poverty has been paired with a concentration of melanin.
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Remember you don't do anything in isolation.
- Abdullah II of Jordan
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Overnight successes are generally years in the making. And most progress is made in isolation, far from the public eye.
- Andrew Yang
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When you're just focused on nutrition and hunger, that's a harder, harder lift in isolation.
- Jeff Fortenberry
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We live in a global village. No country can live in isolation of others like Robinson Crusoe.
- Li Keqiang
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Regardless of what tribe people think they're in, we don't work in isolation as human beings, we want to do what's right.
- Angela Rayner
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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people's spirits.
- bell hooks
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When we have built up armor against all the bad things we think might happen in the world, we have a false sense of protection and have only built up isolation.
- Tara Stiles
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My EP, 'Room 93,' was all about isolation - it was based on the idea of being in a hotel room and being totally alone with yourself or that other person.
- Halsey
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Isolation basketball will always be part of the game. But the system has to be predicated on ball movement and, more importantly, player movement.
- B. J. Armstrong
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The geographical isolation and lack of television made world happenings and problems seem remote.
- Paul D. Boyer
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There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past.
- William Bernbach
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When I was a toddler, I fell ill with diphtheritic croup and was taken to an isolation unit. One of my earliest memories is of being on my own in a tent surrounded by steaming kettles.
- Vera Lynn
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The arts don't exist in isolation.
- David Byrne
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Perhaps because my town was so naturally gothic in its architecture and relative isolation - the roads often closed in winter - my stories tended toward the ghostly and the creepily suspenseful right from the get-go.
- Andrew Pyper
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Empathy has the power to bring together people who would otherwise never meet. It has the power to teach us and to reach us in moments of isolation when we think nobody understands.
- Vivek Murthy
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You can't assess the value of an innovation in isolation, you have to consider whose hands it's in.
- Hannah Fry
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If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make him the monarch and owner of an island, and the fruits that he raises and the clothing that he makes constitute, in themselves, his income. This ceases to be true when trading begins.
- John Bates Clark
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If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and decide to go after it.
- Martha Beck
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There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
- A. R. Ammons
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We have to be very careful about acknowledging that the Internet is very good at combatting isolation, but it's not very good at delivering justice.
- Hope Jahren
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My upbringing has given me sympathy for the idea of isolation and what it is to be a new person in the room, where everyone else has some amount of familiarity and comfort.
- Julianne Moore
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Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran. But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, 'Hi' to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.
- Al Franken
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.
- Jules Verne
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No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.
- Daisaku Ikeda
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Isolation is a dream killer.
- Barbara Sher
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People who live in hermit states like North Korea, Burma, and Cuba already suffer from global isolation. Fed on a diet of propaganda, they don't know what's happening inside their borders or outside of them. By increasing their seclusion, sanctions make it easier for dictators to blame external enemies for a country's suffering.
- Jacob Weisberg
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With technology, there is so much isolation with people now, that there are very few places where you can connect.
- Mireille Guiliano
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The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
- Carl von Clausewitz
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
- Paul Cezanne
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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
- Boris Pasternak
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The worst cruelty that can be inflicted on a human being is isolation.
- Sukarno
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During isolation, one can bring a different approach to the creative process.
- Rosalia
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We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.
- Robert Zemeckis
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This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it.
- Christopher Alexander
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Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
- Thomas Carlyle
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
- Robert A. Heinlein
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No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
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I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.
- David Bowie
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Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
- Thomas Sowell
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Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.
- Joseph Roux
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