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Alain de Botton Quotes

Trying to be a sort of intellectual in the public arena is very irritating to people. They think, 'Why is this bugger on television?'

Alain de Botton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People Think Trying Television Why

So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so damn hard to make it look like the future.

Jerry Pournelle

Future People Look Damn Hard Bring

When you have a great car, you want people to see the car.

Car Great People You Want See

Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Politics Stupid World Face View Say

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

John Maynard Keynes

Opinion Average Interested Believes

I was a Beach Boys guy, but I was won over. In '64, as the radio stations were creating this duel between The Beatles and The Beach Boys, I slowly but surely got won over by the Mop Tops.

Beach Creating Over Radio Guy Got

I actually found it very moving how destructive depression is. I was really saddened by this burden people have to handle.

Depression People Moving Burden How

You want to earn respect in your old age. You want to walk into a restaurant and have people say: 'There's Mickey Rourke. He was great in 'The Wrestler.' You don't want them jumping out of windows.

Age Respect Great Walk Old Age You

If someone's going to talk about me, I'd want it to be positively. The way many write, you'd think only bad things were interesting. If we don't think positive, what's the use? It's a lot more fun, you know.

Dorothy Stratten

Positive Fun Me Think Interesting

I've been quite lucky in that I've managed to tick off a few of my dream roles, really. Beyond that, you wait for the next script to come in that will have the dream role that you don't know exists yet, I suppose.

Wait You Dream Know Beyond Lucky

My idea is that players need to recover first, train later.

Claudio Ranieri

Train First Need Players Idea Later

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

Chuck Palahniuk

Great Depression Spiritual War Our

I don't really have a choice. I'm getting older.

Getting Older Choice Older Really

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