Alain de Botton Quotes

A city like London is sociable in a sense that there are people gathering in bars and restaurants, concerts and lectures. Yet you can partake of all these experiences and never say hello to anyone new. And one of the things that all religions do is take groups of strangers into a space and say it is OK to talk to each other.

Alain de Botton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: December 20, 1969

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Give me civilization. I don't want to be pampered.

Jennifer Esposito

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It is the conflicting interests of the man and the woman, the home and the shop, the Church and the State, which cause the economic struggle, the war and the strife with which mankind is cursed and which make all long and pray for the reign of peace.

Max Heindel

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Television has a different biorhythm than movies. I love the biorhythm of TV.

Steven Spielberg

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Our message of opportunity and inclusion is, I think, a very powerful message that does indeed speak to Americans, but we've got to do a better job of listening.

Tom Perez

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I just wanted to be a part of something that's a horror movie that scares you.

Michael Pena

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It's not that you make a psychopath. They are - more likely, they come out that way, and they show their stripes over time.

Mitchell Zuckoff

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The Faces do not, as some have recently alleged, play badly. They are more than competent, especially at creating a mid-Sixties Rolling Stones-styled groove, as their excellent version of 'Memphis' proves.

Jon Landau

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'War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism, like kamikazism, is a tactic.

Dinesh D'Souza

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Our social mores no longer conform to a world where nice girls wear skirts that don't cling.

Christina Binkley

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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Publilius Syrus

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The Australian cast of mind is not something I would want to be without - and I couldn't be without. It's not a choice.

Peter Carey

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In my run-ins with Christians... I find that they really are good moral people. And we overlap on everything, and they don't seem to be the kind of people that are waiting to hear voices to tell them what to do.

Penn Jillette

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