Alain de Botton Quotes
A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.
Alain de Botton
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In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy.
Harald zur Hausen
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I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.
Iman
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it's a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life.
Zach Galifianakis
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All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
Napoleon Hill
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The second you are handed a newborn it is yours. It doesn't matter what body it came out of. I've never felt more strongly about anything in my life.
Edie Falco
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All great success and achievement is preceded and accompanied by hard, hard, work. When in doubt, 'try harder.' And if that doesn't work, try harder still!
Brian Tracy
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The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.
Oscar Wilde
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I have said that I am in favor of personhood as a concept. I am not taking a position on any of the state amendments, and I have said over and over again - and it has been reported over and over again - that I am not in favor of banning any common forms of birth control in Colorado or in the United States.
Ken Buck
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When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.
Takeshi Kitano
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I have always considered myself of the reforming centre-left.
Charles Kennedy
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A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.
Alain de Botton
