Alain de Botton Quotes

Sometimes my biography is interpreted as the upbringing of a French aristocrat. It was very, very different. We were a family of mercantile, immigrant Jews.

Alain de Botton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FamilySometimesImmigrantDifferent

My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.

Jim Fowler

FatherSoilSurveyScientist

Writing 'Fast Life' has been an incredible experience. It's something totally different from what I am used to.

Joe Jonas

LifeExperienceI AmWritingFast

I didn't always have research jobs.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

ResearchAlwaysJobs

Freedom is what everyone wants - to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

Jocko Willink

LiveFreedomDisciplinePlaceWay

This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing fairly involved calculations.

Stanley Schmidt

WritingDoingAttentionSometimes

In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.

Stewart Udall

LosingDoingYouGrowingNothing

I was expected to run the same as Roberto Carlos or Cafu, but I just couldn't do it.

Ronaldo

RunSameJustExpectedRoberto

'The Wizard of Oz' is my favourite. It explains what life on this planet is about. Although Dorothy reaches Oz, she finds she had what she needed to go back to Kansas all along, but the Good Witch tells her that she had to learn it for herself. All of the answers to the meaning of life are there.

RuPaul

LifeGoodLearnMeaningBackGo

I don't think it's true that blondes have more fun... Trust me, it is not true!

Mila Kunis

TrustFunMeThinkTrueMore

It's especially important for my little girl to see her papa at work.

Luis Suarez

WorkGirlImportantSeeLittleHer

Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists.

Donal Henahan

Real EstateRealNextEstateArtists

Reading 'The Last Days of Magic' is like playing a well-constructed video game.

Diana Gabaldon

GameReadingMagicDaysPlaying

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