Alain de Botton Quotes
It wasn't only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.Alain de Botton
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I'm afraid to fail again.
Jackie Chan -
Vin Scully has been my broadcasting idol for a long time. He is so humble - he has the exact same work ethic that he had 65 years ago. His family is what he cares about the most, and at the heart of his whole being is his marriage and kids.
Hannah Storm -
To my knowledge, no one has died from a cyberattack... but there is a gray area between peace and war.
Valerie Plame -
You will find in me a loyal head of state who is ready listen and understand, warn and advise as well as to defend the public interest at all times.
Felipe VI of Spain -
There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
Adam Peaty -
I want to be an activist professor.
Tariq Ramadan
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A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.
Fisher Ames -
Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.
Barbara Amiel -
I like the slow Scandinavian pace. I don't need cliffhangers in every chapter because I don't want to make a Hollywood movie out of it.
Hakan Nesser -
Patriarchal religions, like Judaism and Christianity, established and upheld the 'man's world.'
Barbara G. Walker -
If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.
Viggo Mortensen -
The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.
Harry Bertoia
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Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.
Ralph Marston -
I've quite often written tweets that I think are across that line, but I just delete them.
Gary Lineker -
We're programmed to believe that time is the enemy, that it takes away from us or that it diminishes us. I have found that it's done the opposite to me. Life is in perfect balance. It's just that our perception of it isn't.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
After about 1940, scientists generally stopped looking for elements in nature. Instead, they had to create them by smashing smaller atoms together.
Sam Kean -
I can't stand being around anal people, especially anal people with big egos.
Laura Prepon
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For me the future of the image is going to be in electronic form. … You will see perfectly beautiful images on an electronic screen. And I'd say that would be very handsome. They would be almost as close as the best reproductions.
Ansel Adams -
I want to shine a spotlight on a new generation of women, who are creating, funding and managing some of the hottest companies in tech today. But I wanted to do more than share their professional stories. I wanted to share their personal journeys, too.
Kristine Carlin Bay -
The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.
Paul Robeson -
We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry.
Ben Barnes -
The rest of the world wants our cash; we like plastic.
Bill Janklow -
It wasn't only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.
Alain de Botton