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Alain de Botton Quotes

The greatest compliment I get about my writing is when people say, 'How did you know so much about me?' And of course, the answer is very simple: 'I just observed myself without sentimentality.'

Alain de Botton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Myself Simple People Me Writing You

Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.

Jim Sensenbrenner

Baseball Long Been Pastime Many

I decided to go to Latin America because many of my students in Washington emigrated from this region and inspired me to learn more about their home countries.

Jenna Bush

Home Me Learn America Go Washington

Microsoft wasn't born as an enterprise company. We have always been growing with end users in mind.

Jean-Philippe Courtois

Mind End Born Growing Company Been

I made my money the old-fashioned way; I inherited it. I think that's a great thing to do.

John Raese

Great Money Think Way Great Thing

The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household.

Amar Bose

Father Mother Food Deep Philosophy

In school, all my teachers and my mum were super routing for me to study at Oxford. I picked music as a career choice, and this didn't sit too well with them!

Stormzy

Music School Me Career Choice Study

This league is getting big. We have way more 300-pound guys than ever before. That's not to say all the people in athletics who have died are 300-pound guys. There are so many different reasons.

Steve Mariucci

People Say Way More Big Different

Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring at screens. They are rather to be found lolling on the sofa or strolling through the groves, nursing their melancholic temperaments and losing themselves in extended reveries.

Tom Hodgkinson

Creative Losing Process You Find

It's core to Amazon's culture that we want to innovate and think big, and it's great to be at a place like that.

Roy Price

Great Culture Think Place Want Big

I stretch and do my squats when I brush my teeth.

Michelle Yeoh

Teeth Stretch Brush

I've never gone to comedy clubs.

Don Rickles

Comedy Never Gone Clubs

If nuclear power plants are safe, let the commerical insurance industry insure them. Until these most expert judges of risk are willing to gamble with their money, I'm not willing to gamble with the health and safety of my family.

Donna Reed

Family Power Health Money Plants