George Carlin
Comedian, Actor
"I was a loner as a child. I had an imaginary friend - I didn't bother with him."
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Albert Einstein
Physicist
"Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder."
Tony Adams
Footballer
"I don't actually like people. I'm a loner and if I had my way I'd just walk my dogs every day, never talk to anyone and then die."
Keri Russell
Actress
"Yeah, I like being on my own. I do. I tend to be a loner, so I'm okay. I'm not okay when I have to be around everyone all the time."
Richard Pryor
Comedian, Actor
"I was a loner and never hung out with anyone. I never had any friends."
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"At the times in my life when I was feeling the most gregarious and looking for bosom friendships, I couldn't find any takers, so that exactly when I was alone was when I felt the most like not being alone... I became a loner in my own mind... I decided I'd rather be alone."
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"I do feel like a loner but I think it's because I look at things differently than other people."
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"I saw the yearbook picture. There was six of them! I ain't have six friends in high school, I don't have six friends now! That's three on three with a half court."
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"I'm a writer. I could not or would not ever run a business. I don't even have a secretary. And contrary to some of the stereotypes, entrepreneurs are not loners. I am."
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"I am primarily a loner. I don't go to clubs. I don't hang out with people. I don't know many people. It's just the way it ended up. It's not a sob story; it's fine for me."
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"From the time I was a little kid, I was always shy. Performing was when I was outgoing. So I guess I am a loner. I get claustrophobia if a lot of people are around."
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"People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be."
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"A lot of times when they catch a guy who killed twenty-seven people, they say, He was a loner. Well, of course he was a loner; he killed everyone he came in contact with."
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"I am far more of a loner than people would imagine. But I am the most gregarious and socially interactive loner you ever met. The thing is, I am fascinated by people's stories and I'm very talkative and can't ever say no to anything or anyone, so I tend to over-socialize, to give away too much of my time to the many people I adore."
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"There is much to be said for post-menopausal celibacy. Sex is rough on loners because you have to have somebody else around, but now I don't. No more diets to stay slim and desirable: I've had sex and I've had food, and I'd rather eat."
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"There was a point when I was 15 or 16 that I realized that my father wanted me to be a loner. I decided, 'It's okay to be an introvert, but I don't want to be a loner. I want a few other people in my life."
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"I was always sort of a loner, I suppose. I always had to think out everything for myself... I suppose that is what you call a loner."
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"Some praise me, some blame me. I go the other way. Sometimes those things that attract the most attention to us are the things which afford us the greatest privacy"
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"Lately he'd been seen going out less and less, becoming that strangest of animals in a small town: a loner."
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"Even when I was coming through school I was a loner and I used to study music and listen to it and play it and play it, and I was in bands."
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"There's a big difference between being a loner and being lonely. I'm far from lonely. My day is full of things I enjoy, starting with my show. Any time my work is going well and I have a relationship with a woman that's pretty solid, that does it for me."
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