Alain de Botton Quotes

I was told by my father nine times a day that you were going to get a job the minute you finish your studies.

Alain de Botton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Besides, it doesn't make any sense to have these characters living in the year 3000 when all their points of reference are from the pop culture of the 80's and the 90's.

Joel Hodgson

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I live on the other side of Charles Darwin and I can no longer see human light as having been created perfect and falling into sin, I see us rather emerging into higher and higher levels of consciousness and higher and higher levels of complication.

John Shelby Spong

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There are technologies you couldn't predict at all when I started.

John Ratzenberger

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I went to art school when I was little.

Amanda Seyfried

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Notwithstanding the likes of 'All the President's Men' in the 1970s or HBO's recent 'The Newsroom,' film and TV have always loved to hate the press.

Steve Erickson

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While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

Sissela Bok

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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

Rollo May

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I like a little chivalry; I like to receive flowers. I like taking care of a son and a husband, and in my judgment, those who recoil from these things don't know what they're missing.

Maryanne Trump Barry

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Being a musician - and I like to think of myself as a musician with a capital M - you need to be an omnivore, and I think the best musicians will listen to anything and love everything, and I do.

Jason Robert Brown

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Certain films should only be watched at 40,000 feet. Like, certain comedies and certain, uh, emotionally charged movies.

Johnny Flynn

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Great Canadian comics are often outsiders and insiders at the same time. That's a great perspective for a comedian.

David Steinberg

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Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture.

Arthur Erickson

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