Alain de Botton Quotes

My greatest joy comes from creativity: from feeling that I have been able to identify a certain aspect of human nature and crystallise a phenomenon in words.

Alain de Botton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.

Jim Lovell

LiveScienceManMoonWorldGo

Back at high school, there was this quarterback who asks me out. He's never paid attention to me before, but now we're on this date, going to see the 'Sixth Sense.' And right before the climax, he leans in - and I'm so excited, because I think we're going to French-kiss - and then he tells me the twist. He completely ruins the movie for me.

Jenny Slate

SchoolMeHigh SchoolThinkBack

If someone was making a movie about F1 in the last six months, they wouldn't need to add a Hollywood ending. If they do make that movie, it's got to be 'The Curious Case Of Jenson Button,' where I've lived my life backwards. I'd like Johnny Depp to play me but he wouldn't be quite right.

Jenson Button

LifeCuriousMeEndingMy LifePlay

Women should stop going for the bad guys, stop looking so far when the good ones are right there.

Jennifer Aniston

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Kyoto was a flawed process. There isn't one industrialized country around the world that has ratified that treaty, and so that is a non-starter.

Andrew Card

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Art is not only about angst.

John Corigliano

ArtOnlyAngstAbout

President Obama came to office with a strong belief that America had overreached, that we had become too involved. It matched the national mood, and indeed, there was some evidence that it was true.

Michael Hayden

StrongAmericaTrueMoodBecome

Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.

Steven Pressfield

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I've been chasing my music dream for a very long time and the acting dream just came up. But there are musical things I want to show the world, so that's my next step.

Roshon Fegan

MusicTimeStepWorldLongActing

Martial arts gave me everything in life. It is not about a paycheck; it is about how I live my life.

Mirko Cro Cop

LifeLiveMeMy LifeEverythingHow

The NBA believes if you play for a team and get paid by a team, you're the property of that team for 24 hours a day.

Dennis Rodman

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We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy.

Chief Joseph

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