Alain de Botton Quotes

The number one person who needs my books is me. I'm not some sort of disinterested guru who has worked life out and is handing things out to the poor people who might not have life worked out.

Alain de Botton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifePeopleMePersonPoorOut

I think that I could have been take apart if the bear market continued, but I waited three years before I felt the bear market was over and I was right.

Jim Cramer

ThinkThreeBearRightOverYears

I don't drink any more than the man next to me, and the man next to me is Dean Martin.

Joe E. Lewis

ManMeDrinkMoreNextThan

People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages.

Jerry B. Jenkins

PeopleReadingFindWantOutKeep

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

John Fowles

WordsPoetryWriteWhoPoemsSimply

I like the hot-cold, the sugar-salt, being able to play over-the-top and dramatic things - in the same film. Just as in my life, I can be very funny and at other times almost extinguished.

Jean Dujardin

LifeFunnyMy LifeI CanPlaySame

I've never made a record that I'm ashamed of.

Steve Earle

NeverAshamedMadeRecord

I would like to score goals in every game.

Son Heung-min

GoalsGameScoreWouldLikeEvery

We're adults. We're the ones who should teach the kids what's good to eat. I don't think the government should ever regulate what we eat at home, but we're feeding them in school with tax dollars. Quite frankly, if my tax dollars are being spent to feed kids, I'd rather feed them better food.

Tom Colicchio

GoodHomeFoodGovernmentSchool

I did a few documentaries as co-director and cameraman. I started off shooting a film about the war in Rhodesia. Then I did a film about an 'around the world' yacht race with a friend, and we spent nine months on a yacht. The film was about how people get on in confined spaces under extreme stress.

Roger Deakins

FriendStressWarPeopleWorldRace

Barack Obama doesn't think this country should be number one. If it were number 35 it'd be fine with him.

Rush Limbaugh

ThinkCountryHimFineBarack Obama

Human imagination is so much more potent than anything we could put down in words.

Matt Bomer

ImaginationWordsDownMoreHuman

Government is not being honest with taxpayers when it renews existing tax breaks and calls them new tax cuts.

Jason Chaffetz

GovernmentTaxNewHonestBeing

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