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Alain de Botton Quotes

I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.

Alain de Botton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Relationship Job Perfect Stop Living

I grew up on two wheels in the dirt.

Two Dirt Up Wheels Grew

I love everything about books. I love the content, the way they look and even the lovely way they smell. I think a book collection says something about you as a person, and certainly my books are something I'd want to pass on for future generations.

Love Future Book Think You Look

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That's how you know you're still alive.

Yourself Challenges You Alive Know

I think a lot of adults are kind of set in their ways. My mom is always changing. She's excited to learn.

Jessica Parker Kennedy

Mom Think Learn Kind She Always

I used to just do movies for alimony purposes, between plays.

Movies Used Just Between Alimony

Portuguese is the language of my heart; it's the language of my feelings. It's the language that I feel I can express myself best in.

Heart Myself Best Language Feel

My mother died when I was two years old; that's why I have so many daddy issues. And that's why my relationship with my dad is so strong.

Mother Relationship Strong Why Old

I live for inspiring people to do things they think they can't. My goal is to completely eliminate the word 'can't' from the equation.

Diamond Dallas Page

Live People Think Goal Things Word

Who has to have a soapbox when all you've ever needed is your voice?

Voice You Who Your Ever Needed

We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.

Respect Care Take Care Need Take

Monopolies are bad and deserve their reputation when things are static and the monopolies function as toll collectors... But I think they're quite positive when they're dynamic and do something new.

Positive Reputation Think Bad New

The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce.

Story Living London Dead Production

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