Alain de Botton Quotes

One of the most welcome aspects of office work is that you do not need to be fully yourself.

Alain de Botton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkYourselfWelcomeYouOffice

The Stones are great and always have been. Jagger's lyrics are just amazing. Right on the ball every time.

Jimmy Page

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We all know exactly what we love, and woe is you if you're on the other side.

Jen Lancaster

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I remember, once I was going through Nice airport with Roger Moore, and these kids came up and asked for our autographs. Afterwards, Roger said, 'It must be very strange for you. I'm an actor, and signing autographs is part of what I do. But you're a public figure who people don't really know.' He was right.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

PeopleRememberYouNiceAirport

Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.

Robin G. Collingwood

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Drama is basically what I do, so it's a compliment that people think it's hard for me to get back to drama.

Michael Pena

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You are born with a voice. And in a way, you don't choose what you want to sing. It's the quality of your voice that matches a certain repertoire, and that's what you're going to sing.

Juan Diego Florez

QualityVoiceYouChooseBornWant

When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably spend the rest of my life taking care of my voice.

Johnny Mathis

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What you don't see is scarier than what you do. Categorization is always kind of arbitrary, but people have called 'Preservation' a 'psychological thriller.' To me, psychological thriller basically means 'a horror movie without the blood.'

Christopher Denham

PeopleMeYouBloodKindHorror

The novel space is a pure space. I'm nobody once I go into that room. I'm not gay, I'm not bald, I'm not Irish. I'm not anybody. I'm nobody. I'm the guy telling the story, and the only person that matters is the person reading that story, the target. It's to get that person to feel what I'm trying to dramatize.

Colm Toibin

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True creativity often starts where language ends.

Arthur Koestler

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The corruption doesn't cease, the crime rates don't come down, no matter which party comes to power.

Pratyusha Banerjee

PowerCorruptionDownPartyMatter

One of the things that I do that I've found from being newly married is that my husband and I, we go in the bathroom and brush our teeth together. And that's when we talk about what's going on in the day, so we get to bond that way.

Sherri Shepherd

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