Alain de Botton Quotes

All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.

Alain de Botton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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It's not natural disasters that are to blame for the deprivation of the North Korean people, but the failed policies of Kim Jong Il.

John Bolton

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There is no way for the American economic system to function without advertising. There is no other way to communicate enough information about enough products to enough people with enough speed.

John O'Toole

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Every now and then, people will recognize me at restaurants or Universal Studios or something. I'll always take a picture with them if they want. I mean, that's what telling stories and acting for a living are for - for the people.

Matthew Moy

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I would love to live in Paris and speak French. That would make me feel glamorous!

Amanda Seyfried

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What makes a great golf course is continuity and variety: right-to-left holes, left-to-right holes.

Amy Alcott

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We need games like 'A Closed World' for many reasons. When you hear another developer talk about how games need to grow up, they need to tackle adult themes, and how they need to embrace that ability to transport the player into a different world, this is that game that they want other developers to make.

Rob Manuel

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There's not a pill you can take; there's not a class you can go to. Stupid is forever.

Ron White

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As a kid, Punky Brewster was my idol. I wanted to dress like her and talk like her.

Devin Kelley

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In my own defense, I wrote a one-man show, and that to me was more where I fit.

Christopher Meloni

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I had to go off to do my own thing, to get my confidence as a writer, and a performer.

Boy George

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My first film, 'Ishaqzaade,' did well, and I got four damn good films because of it.

Arjun Kapoor

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I used to try and make up visually for what I couldn't play as a musician. I used to get into very incredible visual things where, in order just to make one chord more lethal, I'd make it a really lethal looking thing, whereas really it's just going to be picked normally.

Pete Townshend

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