Alain de Botton Quotes

Advertising is - quite often - alive to our real needs. It's just the products on offer might not be the things that will help us satisfy them.

Alain de Botton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

AdvertisingHelpAliveWillRealUs

I like the mix of something farmlike and something futuristic and artsy mixed together. It's kind of both my worlds.

Jeremy Scott

TogetherKindSomethingLikeMix

Feed the troops on victory.

John Monash

VictoryFeedTroops

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

Maya Angelou

FuturePastPresentBurdenPrejudice

My parents did not have any interest in music.

Maurice Jarre

MusicParentsInterestDidAny

Simply stated, girls want role models and mentors.

Anna Maria Chavez

WantMentorsRoleRole ModelsSimply

Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.

John Philip Sousa

BelieveInspirationSourceMustWho

To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.

John Philip Sousa

MusicMindMeanAverageFalseWould

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

Soren Kierkegaard

PassionFaithGenerationHumanMay

I am a very spiritual person. Maybe not traditionally religious in terms of Sunday Mass every week, that sort of thing.

Sonia Sotomayor

SpiritualI AmWeekSundayPerson

Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.

Rose Macaulay

LightWrongSometimesConscienceOwn

We should not fear what our country was built on: a set of Judeo-Christian principles.

Michael T. Flynn

FearCountryPrinciplesSetBuilt

I have 'the first' attached to my name in a whole lot of different aspects when it comes to the sport of basketball.

Lisa Leslie

BasketballNameFirstDifferentLot

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