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Alain de Botton Quotes

Among adults, we can admit that of course, characters are creations. They aren't real people.

Alain de Botton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People Admit Real Real People Course

There was a time when Stefan Zweig was the most widely read author in the world. He was lionized everywhere, translated into every language. For the first four decades of the 20th century, his novellas and biographies were devoured by rich and poor, young and old, well read or less so.

Time World Rich Language Young Poor

I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place.

Learning World Aesthetic You Fall

Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.

Art Best Inspire Facts Learn Desire

Right after I graduated high school, I joined a sushi restaurant to learn how to make Japanese food. And then spent seven years. Then that time - that's enough. Then sushi restaurant - butchering fish and they make your body smell like fishy.

Masaharu Morimoto

Time Food School High School Learn

I can't surf, so I swim. It's the best workout I've ever known because it works your entire body.

Best Body Swim Because Workout Your

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Love Love Is Hatred Given Acquired

Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.

Bryant H. McGill

Genius Enthusiasm Always Accompanied

Every boy learns more in his hours of play than in his hours of labor. In school, he lays in the materials of thinking, but in his sports, he actually thinks: he whets his faculties, and he opens his eyes.

Sports Eyes School Thinking Play He

On the very same day that I ordered an iPad 2, I went shopping to buy myself a letter opener. I like to cover all my bases.

Myself Day Shopping Same Buy Like

I have no directing ambition whatsoever. And as long as I meet filmmakers like Tom Hooper, Stephen Frears, and others who allow that collaboration, I can't see why I would ever want to direct.

Collaboration Ambition Long Meet Why

Awakenings occur when we lose faith in the viability of our institutions and the authority of our leaders. Religious and spiritual awakening gives people a new vision of themselves, which is then transplanted into social action.

Marilyn Ferguson

Faith Vision Spiritual People Action

We know what happens when a woman earns money. She is far more likely than a man to spend her earnings on the health and education of her children and to invest in improving her family's standard of living.

Family Education Children Health Man

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