Alain de Botton Quotes

Many of our ideas of what love is comes from stories... these are extremely powerful shapers of our attitudes towards love, and I think that, in some ways, often we've got the wrong story.

Alain de Botton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LoveLove IsIdeasStoryThinkGot

Look what's happened to Barack Obama over the last two years or George Bush for eight. It's a blood sport. But at some point I may feel the need to run for office again.

Joe Scarborough

FeelLookBloodRunOfficeNeed

In truth, government has been good to Wall Street and big business.

Robert Reich

GoodBusinessTruthGovernmentWall

It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.

John Jay Chapman

DeepLongThreeHalfHoursFour

TNA has had a lot of great periods - Hulk Hogan even came in, but I don't think he was beneficial to TNA. They spent a lot of money on him, but made a lot of mistakes. They should have saved that money for me.

Matt Hardy

GreatMoneyMistakesMeThinkHim

I got bored with the topic; I felt this was 19th century physics. I was wondering if there was still something profound that could be made with light microscopy. So I saw that the diffraction barrier was the only important problem that had been left over.

Stefan Hell

LightProblemPhysicsImportantOver

When I got into Stanford in high school, I had some friends from school who told me that I just got in because I was black and whatnot.

Sterling K. Brown

SchoolMeHigh SchoolBlackFriends

When you're writing a book, with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people who are ordinary, because they are not going to interest your readers at all. Every writer in the world has to use the characters that have something interesting about them, and this is even more true in children's books.

Roald Dahl

GoodChildrenPeopleWritingWorld

I'm always interested in what we're not being shown. So if you're playing ostensibly a quote-unquote 'baddie,' what are their good sides, and vice versa.

Rupert Friend

GoodYouSidesAlwaysVicePlaying

It's true to say that I'm a budding young actor. But I'd rather get my name out there because of my acting rather than who I'm being photographed with.

Josh Bowman

NameActingYoungSayTrueActor

My fans are my family. I love them so much.

Colleen Ballinger

FamilyLoveFansMuchThemI Love

I idolize Gene Hackman. He is not a natural star, not an incandescent personality like Jack Nicholson, but he makes luminous the problems of being an ordinary man in an extraordinary situation.

Brian Dennehy

PersonalityManProblemsSituation

I take breaks from social media periodically because I think it is healthy to walk away and focus on the life that's in front of you instead of the life happening on your screen.

Ariel Winter

LifeFocusWalkSocial MediaThink

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