Alain de Botton Quotes

Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.

Alain de Botton

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• I'm too self-serious for a comedy.

  

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• I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more.

  

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• Angulo presents a difficult challenge because he's a fighter who can punch and take a great punch.

  

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• Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

  

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• As for swimming, I'm now in the pool 5 days a week from 8 to 10 a.m. And I'm in the gym for an hour and a half, 4 days a week. Two days upper body, two days lower.

  

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• My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.

  

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• For me, music was a cathartic way to free me from the nut of Ghost. After working on set for 'Power' for 14 hours, it allowed me to pour my sanity and insanity into the music.

  

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• Even though my mother had told me growing up that, 'If you win, nobody cares what color you are,' that wasn't necessarily true in the N.F.L.

  

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• I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.

  

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• I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.

  

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• We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.

  

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• Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.

  

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• Ladies and babies, and mortgages, for that matter, can all wait. Acting has done a strange thing to me, though. I often sit there, thinking, 'I love this, but I wouldn't put my daughter on the stage.'

  

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• All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.

  

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• There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money.

  

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• Hollywood forgets easily. I want to be fulfilled and challenged.

  

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• You're gifted to do something.

  

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• It's never been a priority for me to concentrate on the likability of the character.

  

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• One of London's massive strengths is its sporting prowess, its great football teams.

  

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• Princess Diana was a nice dancer because she had confidence. In fact, when we danced together she started to lead, and I looked her in eye and went, 'No, you have to let me lead.' So I grabbed her around the waist and we were off to the races.

  

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• The more success I have with track and field the bigger my brand is. So I would say I'm more of a brand now, trying to build for the future.

  

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• Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.

  

  Alain de Botton
  • Confidence