Alain de Botton Quotes

Therapy and counseling can do wonderful things for people. But they have emerged so far as what are sometimes called 'cottage industries' - that is, as individuals or small groups offering generally quite expensive services to a few clients.

Alain de Botton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PeopleSmallSometimesClientsFar

I was most impressed with the professionalism of our soldiers stationed there, and I am now more confident than ever that that the operations at Guantanamo are being conducted in a humane and necessary manner.

Jim Ryun

I AmProfessionalismConfidentNow

Anybody who ever left Microsoft to Amazon, we could count on them coming back within a year or two, because it's not a great place to work to do innovative stuff as an engineer.

Steve Ballmer

WorkGreatYearBackPlaceCount

'The Purge' is really about America's crazy relationship to guns and guns gone wild, essentially, and it kind of laid the groundwork for 'Get Out.'

Jason Blum

RelationshipCrazyAmericaKindWild

I said a vote to leave would be a Brexit tax. I couldn't think of anything stronger than that.

Jose Angel Gurria

ThinkStrongerTaxSaidVoteLeave

I was, I think, extremely lucky, because the minute I saw my face plastered on 'Time' magazine in the subway with my mother, I just said, 'Wow.' And it made 'Time' magazine come down to life-size scale.

Diane Lane

MotherTimeFaceThinkDownSaid

I went to the Louvre in Paris, and I saw all the paintings and the Mona Lisa. You don't really see something like that every day. I was looking at it, and everything else in the room just shut out. Like, Leonardo Da Vinci painted this thing - this is unreal that he touched that. It had this crazy effect on me.

Brian Fallon

DayMeCrazyLookingYouEvery Day

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

Bob Marley

PeopleFallSmokeMoreHerbBabylon

What was always interesting about Thomas Harris' books is they were a wonderful hybridization of a crime thriller and a horror movie.

Bryan Fuller

InterestingCrimeHorrorAlwaysWere

What's that song? It says, 'Everything that you do will come back to you in your sweet time?' That's why I still don't relax. Even my coach gets mad at me sometimes. He's like, 'Come on, man - relax.' I go, 'Nah.' I'm always good.

Brian Ortega

GoodTimeManSweetRelaxSong

A lot of people like to be supertiny, but I don't want a child's body - I want a woman's body that is extremely fit. It's so much sexier.

Ashley Greene

WomanChildPeopleBodyWantLike

If I had been born in the circus, my parents would have pushed me on that little high wire at four years old. That's when the body is most limber to learn those acrobatics.

Philippe Petit

ParentsMeLearnBodyBornCircus

Miami is a party city, a go-fast city.

Rick Ross

CityMiamiParty

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