When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
Youssou N'Dour
MusicPeopleIsolationHelpCreate
In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.
Pankaj Mishra
WorldIsolationAmericanIndiaOut
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
PainEgoIsolationArtistAlmost
Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
Abdullah II of Jordan
JusticeIsolationViolenceEarth
Nuclear tests poison the environment - and they also poison the political climate. They breed mistrust, isolation and fear.
Ban Ki-moon
FearIsolationPoliticalEnvironment
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
WinterRoadsArchitectureIsolation
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
Growing UpNightIsolationStrong
Any country that grants asylum to Snowden risks retaliation from the United States, including diplomatic isolation and costly trade sanctions. Several don't seem to care.
Stephen Kinzer
RisksIsolationCareCountrySeem
No matter how you look at it, one person cannot be evaluated and paid in isolation of budgets.
Steven Sinofsky
IsolationYouLookPersonMatter
You know, that single girl life and that sense of isolation - that doesn't leave you just like that. And that's what that song is about. I remember that, and that is imprinted on me, that sense.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
LifeGirlMeSongIsolationYou
I think there's this idea that the depth of an actor's performance is built on tough times or horrible events or isolation, but I never found that. I figured that my imagination coupled with the story can get me anywhere.
Milo Ventimiglia
Tough TimesImaginationMeIsolation
I don't do isolation body building; I just do practical things that help me with the kind of things that are asked of me in action movies. You know, a lot of kick boxing, a lot of sparring.
Jason Statham
MeBuildingActionIsolationHelp
David Cameron wants people to believe that his isolation in Europe is a result of Britain being outnumbered when it matters most.
Douglas Alexander
PeopleBelieveIsolationResultMost
Composing demands a degree of isolation.
Cliff Martinez
IsolationDegreeDemandsComposing
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
WorkPeopleIsolationProcessNow
Helping reproductive services doesn't just help women in isolation. It helps men just as much.
Tucker Max
WomenMenIsolationHelpJustMuch
We live in a global village. No country can live in isolation of others like Robinson Crusoe.
Li Keqiang
LiveIsolationCountryVillageLike
National isolation breeds national neurosis.
Hubert H. Humphrey
IsolationBreedsNationalNeurosis
I am in no way different from anyone else, that my predicament, my sense of aloneness or isolation may be precisely what unites me with everyone.
Franz Wright
I AmMeIsolationWayEveryoneMay
The arts don't exist in isolation.
David Byrne
IsolationArtsExist
Whether for company or isolation or just to make it a pleasurable experience, I have music in my ears all the time. I tend to listen to the same things, so I don't really pay too much attention to it. But it's there, and it's nice, and I do pay more attention to it than I probably should. I think, 'How can I use this music in something?'
Whit Stillman
MusicTimeExperienceIsolationNice
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
Paul Cezanne
IsolationStrongUncertain
Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.
Haruki Murakami
WorkSupportPeopleIsolationThink
Policymakers, elected and unelected, need to be ever-mindful that the U.S. economy does not exist in isolation.
Elaine Chao
IsolationNeedEconomyExistElected
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