Alain de Botton Quotes

Alcohol-inspired fights … are a reminder of the price we pay for our daily submission at the altars of prudence and order.

Alain de Botton

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• The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Up
  • Home
  • Day

• We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • People
  • High
  • Night

• I am not sure that you, the younger generations, will like to go to war that we went through. So, we learn as the mistakes are being committed.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • War
  • Mistakes
  • Generations

• Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Love
  • Faith
  • For Her

• I went in and auditioned for one of the main guys for 'The League' when it was first casting, and I was so excited because I was like, 'Oh my God, this is my life!' I love fantasy football, and I play with my buddies, and my wife is frustrated with it.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Life
  • God
  • Love

• Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Strong
  • Me
  • Religious

• Microsoft does platform, not really infrastructure, and they do a little bit of Saas.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Platform
  • Infrastructure

• I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Children
  • Sharp
  • Stairs

• Life started getting good when I started making money.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Life
  • Good
  • Money

• The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Children
  • Friends
  • Success

• My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'

  

  Laura Linney
  • Experience
  • You
  • Rare

• Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Hope
  • You
  • Human

• The first thing I ever saw Bradley Cooper in was 'Wedding Crashers.'

  

  Ed Weeks
  • First
  • Wedding
  • Ever

• You can finish the day's filming or the whole shoot or watch something months later and think you could have done it so much better. It's frustrating.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Done
  • Day
  • Better

• It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Good
  • Know
  • Lies

• I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

  

  Carl Barks
  • Never
  • Boy
  • Old

• I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Teach
  • Go
  • University

• The craftsmanship that Hollywood has always used as a selling point not only doesn’t have much to do with art - the expressive use of techniques - it probably doesn’t have very much to do with actual box-office appeal, either.

  

  Pauline Kael
  • Art

• Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.

  

  John le Carre
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I believe, basically, that individual freedom is very important.

  

  Peter Thiel
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Freedom

• I hated art as a kid. I didn't even like art class. I didn't like to draw. I would make my dad do all the drawings because I hated it so much.

  

  Wade Guyton
  • Art
  • Kids
  • Dad

• The world over - 50 million children start playing tennis, 5 million learn to play tennis, 500,000 learn professional tennis, 50,000 come to the circuit, 5000 reach the grand slam, 50 reach Wimbledon, 4 to semi final, 2 to the finals, when I was holding a cup I never asked GOD 'Why me?'. And today in pain I should not be asking GOD 'Why me?'

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • World
  • God
  • Children

• Alcohol-inspired fights … are a reminder of the price we pay for our daily submission at the altars of prudence and order.

  

  Alain de Botton
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