Alain de Botton Quotes

What we typically call love is only the start of love. Our understanding of love has been hijacked and beguiled by its first distractingly moving moments.

Alain de Botton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LoveLove IsMovingStartMoments

I think they should let gays in the military because we are the United States of America. And if a gay person wants to serve his or her country, why should they not be allowed to?

Jesse Ventura

ThinkAmericaGayCountryPerson

Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does not fail to lead us astray quite often.

Andre Weil

ConnectionSeeingAppearanceMeanUs

I definitely am drawn to strong females who are successful, smart women because I am a woman like that. I think it's important to portray those kinds of women on film and television.

Megalyn Echikunwoke

WomenWomanSmartI AmStrongThink

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

Maya Angelou

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I love turtlenecks; they are very chic, but I don't wear them very often because it bothers me to have something around the neck.

Jeanne Damas

LoveMeWearNeckSomethingBecause

I don't believe you outsource your convictions and principles to people.

Jeb Bush

PeopleBelieveYouPrinciplesYour

There was a Republican majority of the Senate, and it tempered the nature of the nominations being made.

Spencer Abraham

NatureRepublicanBeingMajority

There's nothing wrong with looking at a woman's kneecaps.

Tracy Morgan

WomanLookingWrongNothing

The conservative version of American exceptionalism has become a password of sorts for candidates who want to prove their credentials to a right-wing America.

Russ Feingold

AmericanAmericaWantProveBecome

It wasn't until I went to Korea out of high school and got exposed to the martial arts for the first time and was just completely enamored with the physical ability of the martial arts and making my black belt.

Chuck Norris

TimeSchoolHigh SchoolBlackHigh

I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.

Arnold J. Toynbee

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Every day I am trying to improve my life.

Alicia Machado

LifeDayI AmMy LifeTryingEvery

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