Alain de Botton Quotes
It wasn't only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.
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I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
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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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I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.
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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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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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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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If it's a good cause, I'll play just about anything.
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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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There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.
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It does feel like we’re on edge, like something’s about to break and there’s about to be another big awakening, i feel like the younger generation – millennials – sometimes can get a bad rap, but the thing I love about it is that they are all-in on whatever they’re going for…and the ones that are going after the Lord they’re so passionate about it that I feel like that’s what changes our nation – their passion and their hunger.
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Society is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Whenever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you. Every creature you see is a farthing Sisyphus, pushing his little stone up some Liliputian mole-hill. This is our world.
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It wasn't only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.
