The question of the stranger in a society which estranges everybody from it--while forcing everybody to assimilate their own alienation--takes cover under dubious and sinister masks.
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Related Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way. JOHN MAYER Man's feeling of homelessness, of alienation has been intensified in the midst of a bureaucratized, ... WILLIAM BARRETT I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can re... D. B. WEISS Everybody has their own story; everybody has their own journey. THALIA Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something,... FRANK ZAPPA At the moment, everybody keeps the Palestinian people from suffering the consequences from their own... DAN SCHUEFTAN We have to prepare for everybody and sometimes it takes a while. We're still young and learning. But... TROY ADUDDELL Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never... AGNES SMEDLEY When it comes to parental alienation or grandparent alienation, we walk around with the overwhelming... DONNA LYNN HOPE Lets make a change today while everybody takes a day off and waits to make a change tomorrow. OSCAR AULIQ-ICE It takes a disciplined person to listen to convictions which are different from their own. DOROTHY FULDMAN Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion. JANE AUSTEN Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion. JANE AUSTEN Everybody has a right to their own troubles. THORNTON WILDER Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other. GUY DEBORD Everybody takes steps in the wrong direction. Everybody has the opportunity to take steps in the rig... DON ABELL In public affairs men are often better pleased that the truth, though known to everybody, should be ... DAVID HUME Everybody have that one friend that's now a stranger. OLASOT We're trying to accomplish one goal. That's to get to the World Series. It takes everybody and today... AARON ROWAND Everybody has the right to have their own opinion, DANIEL ALFREDSSON I think everybody has to be better, right from me out. Everybody has to step up their games for us t... ED BELFOUR Everybody has their own desires. CHAUNCEY BILLUPS He doesn't flaunt it in front of everybody, but everybody knows it. Anytime somebody has a math ques... PETE GUYTON When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. VOLTAIRE Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see, ... FRANK ZAPPA Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see, ... FRANK ZAPPA I think what you have to recognise is everybody has their own deal, and everybody has challenges. Do... BETH BROOKE Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness. SANDRA BERNHARD The association will work to negotiate a contract that will cover everybody. CANDICE JOHNSON From my own point of view, I hope everybody would realise that people who work in Scottish football ... WALTER SMITH It just goes back to let everybody else worry about the Rocket. Let him take the show, and hopefully... A.J. BURNETT Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is. YVONNE CRAIG Lewis was a team effort. It takes everybody doing their part on defense. You've got to make pretty g... JOEL WALTON The scientific method gives us
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can... LEWIS N. ROE Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look. MAEVE BINCHY Staggering increases in the price of gas are having serious ripple effects throughout the economy an... COLLEEN KELLEY Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get ... JACK WHITE Almost everybody gets in. It's just a matter of how many times it takes. DOUGLAS MASSEY The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation TERENCE MCKENNA We can't reach everybody because not everybody takes advantage of our services. BILL BURNHAM Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everyb... LEONARD COHEN ...I take as a point of departure the possibility and desirability of a fundamentally different form... MICHAEL BURAWOY I don't care if you are religious or not and I think the message is that at the end of the day, ... BORIS KODJOE We were a very small circle of writers. 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ARETHA FRANKLIN The greatest act of courage is to be and to own all of who you are — without apology, without excu... DEBBIE FORD If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does. LEWIS CARROLL It's good to pay high taxes - you have free schools, free universities. It's a much more dec... STELLAN SKARSGARD Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody h... ZACHARY QUINTO Everybody has to be responsible for their own actions - and if they do something wrong, I believe in... KATE MARA It's sort of like Santa Claus left a present under the tree for everybody and leaves it open to liti... HEIDI MCINTOSH If everybody minded their own business, the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, the world would go round... LEWIS CARROLL "If everybody minded their own business," the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, "the world would go ro... LEWIS CARROLL Everybody brought it tonight. 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