Alain de Botton Quotes

The central task for a business is to make a profit. The challenge is to make a profit by doing things which are genuinely good for people and good for societies.

Alain de Botton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Keegan-Michael Key and Lindsay Sloane are two of the best, literally, just dramatic actors.

Jessica St. Clair

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I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.

Max Walker

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Rouje is for a feminine woman who likes to look beautiful and be comfortable in her clothes, too. Simple pieces: feminine with a '70s touch.

Jeanne Damas

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Rebuilding our relationship with Cuba would be a win for American business and a win for the Cuban people.

Amy Klobuchar

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I moved to New York to do theater, and I got cast in a play that was funny, and then I was the funny guy. I did a movie that was funny, and then I was the funny guy.

Steve Zahn

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I like the new, cool, swinging Justin Timberlake.

Roger Stone

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There was quite a lot of lying around in fields at Stonar, a small independent girls' school in the country near Bath. It was a non-selective school and the right environment for me: academically not particularly pushy.

Romola Garai

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I can't write a novel without first really doing reporting. I don't even call it research; it's reporting. That process is very important to the granularity of my writing. I have to know what the reality is so I can be more convincing in the writing.

Lorraine Adams

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As an actor, you get to sort of bounce back and forth in terms of the age range you play and the life experience that your characters have.

Jonathan Keltz

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Everyone should have ten megabits and then the web will be a wonderful thing.

Jon Postel

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Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.

Douglas Coupland

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