Alain de Botton Quotes

I love the idea of a university as away from capitalist values, where people can do things that don't immediately have to pay their way. It's like a monastery in a way, and that beautiful refuge has been destroyed by dogma about what this stuff is for.

Alain de Botton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LoveBeautifulPeopleValuesWay

I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs.

Jerry Garcia

MoneyThinkProblemBadCrimeTurn

It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.

Anatole Broyard

LoveLooking BackWaitLookingBack

There is no moderator or ombudsman online, and while the transparency of the web usually means that information is self-correcting, we still have to keep in mind the responsibility each of us carries when the power of the press is at our fingertips and in our pockets.

Matt Mullenweg

PowerResponsibilityMindInformation

When you're in a play like 'Kean,' you can't think of anything else. Love is too time-consuming.

Jean-Paul Belmondo

LoveLove IsThinkYouPlayLike

Imagination allows you to bend the rules of the temporal world.

Amy Sherald

ImaginationWorldYouRulesBend

I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect.

Spike Lee

PeopleThinkInterestingPerfectWho

What's happened is that an incessant, an insidious insurgency has repeatedly attacked the key infrastructure targets, reducing outputs.

Stuart Bowen

KeyInfrastructureHappenedAttacked

The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out.

Solomon Burke

WorkGodCoolSecretOutStay

Coho or silver salmon are very common and easy to get for a good price.

Tom Douglas

GoodEasyPriceSilverSalmonGet

We had a large common domain, already added by the several States for the common benefit of all; purchase and war might make large additions to this common domain; hence the power over existing and future territories, with the stipulation to admit new States, was conferred.

Robert Toombs

FuturePowerWarAdmitNewOver

Contentment is work so engrossing that you do not know that you are working.

Donald Hall

WorkYouKnowContentmentWorking

The first thing you learn about the music business is that it changes very quickly. You come into it at a certain point and you think you have a handle on it... And then, three years later, the whole thing has been turned upside-down.

Dean Wareham

BusinessMusicThinkLearnYou

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