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'm very happy alone.
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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'm not that deep, I'm not that mysterious. Don't try to figure me out. I'm a very open book. What you see is what you get.
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Living in Beijing, writing about politically sensitive things now and then, you get used to the idea that somebody, somewhere, might be watching. But it is usually an abstract threat.
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Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and wonder how I do these things. I can embarrass myself so badly that I literally get a hot prickle down the back of my neck.
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When I finally make up my mind that I want to do something, it's never been hard for me to do.
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Jesus taught us to pray, "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us" not forgive us and smite those bastards who hurt us.
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It wasn't only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.
