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Alain de Botton Quotes

Everyone's more vulnerable than they seem, and I think men are more vulnerable. Once you get close to a man, the whole thing's a facade anyway. I think manhood is fragile.

Alain de Botton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Men Man Think You More Fragile

'Authoring tools' are terrible; there is almost no software that can create closed captions for media players. And of course there is no training. TV captioning is bad enough, and this stuff is generally worse.

Joe Clark

Training Tools Enough Media Bad

I was depressed for a long time.

Tony Rock

Time Long Long Time Depressed

The truth is you cannot decrease the severity and certainty of sentences without increasing crime. It's simply impossible.

Tom Cotton

Truth Impossible Truth Is You Crime

I don't think of myself as a model. I'm genderqueer, and I've got tattoos.

Ruby Rose

Myself Think Tattoos Got Model

I've never stopped learning.

Mick Taylor

Learning Never Stopped

My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.

Joyce Carol Oates

Role Role Models Jane Austen Virginia

Identifying Israel with Jewry obscures the existence of the small but important post-Zionist movement in Israel, including the philosophers Adi Ophir and Anat Biletzki, the sociologist Uri Ram, the professor of theatre Avraham Oz and the poet Yitzhak Laor.

Judith Butler

Theatre Small Important Movement Ram

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Meet Realize Difficulties Existence

A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.

Derek Walcott

Culture Know Made Cities

I see life as a burning meteorite that you can climb all over, and feed off, as it is falling to earth.

Doug Aitken

Life Climb You Earth Over See

The reason that 'Stalingrad' took off was because it emphasized the influence of history on the individual.

Antony Beevor

History Influence Reason Individual

Oh, my God. I want to be a mother, and I anticipate loving my children quite fiercely. I think about it all the time, though it's a silly thing to think about because the kind of mother I'll be depends on the kind of children I have. I can't wait to meet them.

Anne Hathaway

Mother God Children Time Wait Think