Alain de Botton Quotes

Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them.

Alain de Botton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

RespectPoliticalAnxietyStatusUs

When you don't feel healthy, stop the excuses and do something. Just go outside, walk, breathe. Life's too short to fall into a rut. You are in charge of you - treat yourself well, and it'll show.

Jessica Stroup

LifeWalkYourselfTreatShortYou

That word 'funny' always makes me feel uncomfortable. Because if I were trying to be funny, I would be something like Bill Wegman - he really tries to be funny. I don't try to be funny. It's just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter, and I'm sort of reporting.

John Baldessari

FunnyMeWorldFeelUncomfortable

We have problems, terrible problems, but our problems are human problems.

John Cassavetes

ProblemsHumanTerribleOur

It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

John Templeton

Be NiceImportantNiceMore

For us, it's a matter of just staying alive and getting the best deal we can now. Eventually, this will all straighten out. It may be two generations away or 10 generations away, but time is irrelevant in that sense. As long as we, as a people, stay alive, we will survive.

John Trudell

TimeBestPeopleSurviveLongAlive

If the Loki in 'Thor' was about a spiritual confusion - 'Who am I? How do I belong in this world?' - the Loki in 'Avengers' is, 'I know exactly who I am, and I'm going to make this world belong to me.'

Tom Hiddleston

SpiritualI AmMeWorldKnowBelong

Some claim that computers will, by 2050, achieve human capabilities. Of course, in some respects they already have.

Martin Rees

ComputersAchieveWillHumanClaim

The power of the silent filibuster to distort Senate politics is now accepted on Capitol Hill and by the press as normal and not worth mentioning. Let me be the skunk at this political garden party and say this stinks. Representative government was not designed to work this way by the Founding Fathers.

Juan Williams

WorkPowerPoliticsGovernmentMe

I like to play acoustic slide. I like that. I just... I can do it, you know. But it ain't my cup of tea.

Dickey Betts

TeaYouI CanPlayKnowCup

I've always been a firm believer in local news, because it's an opportunity to connect with the community where you live.

David Shuster

LiveOpportunityCommunityYouNews

In summer of 2008, I meet a guy named Michael Seibel. And Michael Seibel says, 'There are these people called angels, and they'll give you money.' The first thing I thought is, 'I can't believe this guy believes in angels.' That's how naive I was.

Brian Chesky

MoneyPeopleBelieveThoughtYou

I hear the same anxieties over and over again. Everything is too fast; everything is too precarious. We have more access than ever to the people we are trying to reach, thanks to social media and mobile technology, and more information than we know what to do with.

Anna Wintour

TechnologySocial MediaPeopleMedia

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