Alain de Botton Quotes
It wasn't only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.
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I'm afraid to fail again.
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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.
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To my knowledge, no one has died from a cyberattack... but there is a gray area between peace and war.
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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.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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I want to be an activist professor.
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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.
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Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.
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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.
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Patriarchal religions, like Judaism and Christianity, established and upheld the 'man's world.'
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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.
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The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.
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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.
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I've quite often written tweets that I think are across that line, but I just delete them.
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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.
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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
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After about 1940, scientists generally stopped looking for elements in nature. Instead, they had to create them by smashing smaller atoms together.
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I can't stand being around anal people, especially anal people with big egos.
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And, because of the life that I shared with these two amazing women [her mother and maternal grandmother] and the hardships and struggles that I saw them overcome, I learned an invaluable lesson, and that is that women can do anything we set our minds to... and then some!
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One guy wins and one guy loses, but it's not entirely up to him. Our sport is so crazy that on any given Sunday, anybody can win. You can run the same race over and over five times, and you'll probably get five different winners. It's wild.
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We the people have the strength to bring our country from our weak-kneed stumbling gait in the last ranks of reason to the leadership of the great march to environmental victory.
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Americans are pragmatic; we want quick, clean, simple solutions to vast problems. The paradox is that we're a deeply confessional culture, but we're not often contemplative.
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I’m never too far gone for you. I’m never too far gone. No matter where I go, it’s true. I’m never too far gone.
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It wasn't only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.
