I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn’t do it alone. – Joichi Ito
China’s environmental conundrums will not be solved by changes within government alone. New mechanisms are needed to allow the communities which may be affected by a given plan, and citizens concerned about the environment, to join in. – Ma Jun
Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I’d sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn’t miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either. – Marilyn Monroe
I do read all my work aloud as I’m working – this has made it a little hard to adjust to my husband’s retirement. I can shout the shouty parts if I’m alone in the house, but of course, I feel a fool if someone is there to hear me. – Karen Joy Fowler
I have an internal protectiveness where it’s like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone, there is a dark place in my brain where I’m like, It could happen and I’m okay, I’m prepared. – Lena Headey
Even though I love solar and love wind, like most people do, I like the renewable sources, they alone are not going to get America energy independent. – Mitt Romney
When I was 17 years old, I put out an album while my mother was dying of cancer. That right there alone is a struggle. That’s hard. That’s tough for anybody. – Lil Mama
Who can protest alone? Who dares rise up? It is not easy. One is all alone, and evermore shall be so. – Michael Leunig
I personally think that’s incredibly therapeutic to just be alone in your own thoughts and not be freaking out. – John Curran
We have a community where almost 50 percent of the people in the city of Cleveland alone have some type of record. I represent one of the poorest districts in America – out of 435, I’m 422. – Marcia Fudge
It’s often just enough to be with someone. I don’t need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You’re not alone. – Marilyn Monroe
When you watch someone on TV go through something that you’re going through that’s difficult, it lets you know that you’re not alone, and there’s nothing to be ashamed of. – Kether Donohue
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. – Leo Tolstoy
Depression is so treacherous – it can be so alluring as well as punishing. After all, it’s yours and yours alone – no one else can interfere with it. – Margo Jefferson
The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone. – John Bardeen
The business of writing a novel is a long, meandering road into the self, into the imagination. And it’s a road the writer travels alone. – Lisa Unger
That can be the most painstaking aspect of being a teen, figuring out what the world really looks like. If you find someone in a book, you know you’re not alone and that’s what’s so comforting about books. – Laurie Halse Anderson
The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man’s being, unfolding itself in thought. – Karl Jaspers
I get unhappy doing things that I’m not passionate about. Because I feel like I’m squandering this incredible gift I’ve been given to finance films. As soon as my name alone was enough to make this happen, I vowed to myself that I was going to work with directors who were changing cinema, doing something important, you know? – Leonardo DiCaprio
Interpreting anyone’s marriage – a neighbor’s, let alone the president’s – is extremely difficult. – Jodi Kantor
Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions. – John Bates Clark
I had a terrible stammering problem when I was young, and as a result I spent a lot of time alone. – Ken Venturi
‘The Desolation of Smaug’ stands alone as an action/adventure epic movie. It’s visually stunning, and the 3D is incredible. Plus, it’s directed by Peter Jackson, and he’s extraordinary. – Luke Evans
