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.
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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.'
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We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.
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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.
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Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.
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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.
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Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
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Microsoft does platform, not really infrastructure, and they do a little bit of Saas.
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I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.
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Life started getting good when I started making money.
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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.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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The first thing I ever saw Bradley Cooper in was 'Wedding Crashers.'
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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.
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It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
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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.
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I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.
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We're trying to make money, trying to add a zero onto our net worth.
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Globalization and technical change are the guarantee of our future prosperity. And reversing on that will not only make things worse, but it will make things worse for a very large number of people around the world who have benefitted - people in China and India who have been dragged out of the most awful poverty.
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Pubs are, disturbingly, where I hatch most of my best idea-sculptures: possibly it's something to do with the disinhibiting effects of alcohol, or maybe it's just having company to yack at.
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To worship God 'in spirit and in truth' is first and foremost a way of saying that we must worship God by means of Christ. In him the reality has dawned and the shadows are being swept away (Hebrews 8:13). Christian worship is new covenant worship; it is gospel-inspired worship; it is Christ-centered worship; it is cross-focused worship.
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One thing must be emphatically stated. The New Testament books did not become authoritative for the Church because they were formally included in a canonical list; on the contrary, the Church included them in her canon because she already regarded them as divinely inspired, recognizing their innate worth and generally apostolic authority, direct or indirect.
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Alcohol-inspired fights … are a reminder of the price we pay for our daily submission at the altars of prudence and order.
