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Alain de Botton Quotes

There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.

Alain de Botton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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People Looking Learn Things May

I definitely don't subscribe to the theory that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or double tracking the voice, is a good thing. People do their early albums very stripped down, then each album becomes bloated.

Good People Voice Early Down More

America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.

Sacrifice People Greed Choose Young

That's what I hate about a lot of comedies, when you're hitting a line or making it funny.

Jennifer Aniston

Funny Hate You Line Making Hitting

I always knew I was different than everyone else, and smarter.

Always Everyone Different Knew Than

I think the O.J. Simpson case conjured all the paranoia, the racial anxiety, but also the racial fatigue that America has endured over the last half century.

Michael Eric Dyson

Think America Anxiety Over Racial

No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.

Family Think Encouragement Fiction

I've been surrounded by women my whole life, so obviously I love fashion... But I'd like to do my own thing and focus on what I love. If people accept it, they accept it. If they don't, they don't.

Life Love Women Focus People Accept

Apart from 'VIP' being a blockbuster movie, the various characters such as mine, the Luna bike I use in the movie, the lovable amma and appa, a pet dog named Harry Potter, the innocent brother, etc., had a huge reach among the audiences.

Dog Pet Bike Brother Reach Innocent

I'm so impressed by Jennifer Lawrence and Carey Mulligan. They have this exquisite taste. They are very gifted in their ability to make great choices.

Great Choices Ability Taste Gifted

What is perhaps more worthy of note than how many tsunami dead we've seen, however, is how many other recent dead we have not seen.

Dead More Worthy Seen Note Than

My father is 100% Japanese and came to the United States when he was only 18 years old. My grandmother still resides in Japan, which has allowed me to travel to the roots of my ancestors with my father.

Father Travel Me Roots Grandmother

I have notebooks all over the place. I write little stories for my cabaret.

Place Write Over Little Notebooks

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