Alain de Botton Quotes

The philosophy I love is very selective. It is really just the bit that is involved in a search for wisdom, and this means a short roll call of names; Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epicurus, Montaigne, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche.

Alain de Botton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LoveWisdomLove IsSearchShort

I want to help create the world's first global currency built on the Internet and built on open platforms and standards such as Bitcoin, and I want to build a financial services institution on top of that. That's what I'm doing with Circle.

Jeremy Allaire

WorldFinancialInternetDoingHelp

I always thought I'd make films. I didn't think I'd be in them.

Max Minghella

ThinkThoughtAlwaysMakeThem

The founders were very worried that if parties developed in America, you might have something like the modern Italian system, where you have 20 different parties that divide Congress and the country and can't govern.

Michael Beschloss

AmericaYouCountryCongressSystem

I wouldn't trade my career with anybody's. I'd trade a few movies with Tom Hanks - 'Apollo 13' and 'Forrest Gump' - but other than that, I love my career.

John Travolta

LoveCareerMoviesTradeApolloFew

I spent my 30s figuring out how to be a grown up, I guess. I loved my 30s! My 30s were really about being happy with what I was doing.

Ana Ortiz

HappyLovedDoingBeing HappyOut

It seemed like I always did some great hitting in Brooklyn. The field there was close to the stands. Every time I started walking to the plate, I could hear the fans say, 'Here comes that man again. Here comes that man.'

Stan Musial

GreatTimeManWalkingBrooklynSay

My whole life I've actually been training to be a stunt man without realising it. I've always loved extreme sports, and I now I get paid for it.

Steve Truglia

LifeSportsManTrainingLovedNow

Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result.

Tommy Armour

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I love watching Messi with the ball at his feet. He scores goals and everything else.

Ronaldo

LoveGoalsFeetWatchingEverything

I think people want success, you know, and I'm the captain.

Mats Sundin

SuccessPeopleThinkYouKnowWant

Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics.

Marvin Olasky

WinterHolidaysChristianIceJewish

I do have my cheat meals. I have Oreos inside the house right now, and I have beer and fried chicken and waffles. All that good stuff. But once it comes down to when I really want to get in shape and get lean, I'll eat clean and go with whole foods.

Demetrious Johnson

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