Alain de Botton Quotes

If buying art is to matter to us deeply, then it has to engage with our emotions and bring something to what one might as well, and with no supernatural associations whatsoever, call our souls.

Alain de Botton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ArtEmotionsMatterEngageBuying

I'm in love with the entire industry and every aspect of performing and directing, even writing, and I love working with acting students.

John Callen

LoveWritingActingIndustryWorking

I have the most eclectic audience - I've got gay, I've got straight, black, white, rich, poor, young, old, in 45 countries. And they don't all come because I'm the Sinatra kid, though that's a big part of it. My biggest successes have come from pop songs that I write myself.

Michael Buble

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I do believe that when your child does poorly on a test, your first step should not necessarily be to attack the teacher or the school's curriculum. It should be to look at the idea that, maybe, the child didn't work hard enough.

Amy Chua

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I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.

Robert Wyatt

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Graphic novels are such a visually creative world - it's really interesting what they can do in one sketch. Now I'm hooked.

Michelle MacLaren

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I'm always showing pictures off. I have to be careful who I show them to because of who I am, obviously, but I'm a proud father.

Josh Turner

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To build my legacy and be that person I want to be, this is what it's going to take: to get on the road and travel. Let's do it that way.

Deontay Wilder

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I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things.

Christopher Meloni

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I'd say for those people who don't feel like they fit in, I'd want them to ask themselves why they want to, who they are trying to please, and whether or not those people are worth it. You know what they say: 'If they don't want you, then they don't deserve to have you.'

Connor Paolo

PeopleFeelTryingWorthYouKnow

I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.

Brenda Fassie

I AmCreateControversyLikeAm

Ripple is focused on enabling a global network of financial institutions to use our software to create what we call the Internet of Value.

Brad Garlinghouse

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I played piano as a kid; I still play a little bit.

Bobby McFerrin

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