Alain de Botton Quotes
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'
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I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
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That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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I don't mind doing the green-screen stuff at all, and in fact it's a lot like black-box theater, which I did plenty of in New York.
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Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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I know a lot of single people who are not miserable as society tells them they're supposed to be.
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Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any time, amounted to genius. She had been brought up by her mother with the utmost simplicity, and she retained it to the end, and conducted her public and private life alike by that infallible guide.
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Most people don't want to get married. Being married, that's a responsibility.
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Pooh looked at his two paws. He knew that one of them was the right, and he knew that when you had decided which one of them was the right, then the other one was the left, but he never could remember how to begin.
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I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.
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I was a professor at Princeton University. And, in that capacity, I studied for many years the role of financial crisis in the economy.
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Happiness may be difficult to obtain. The obstacles are not primarily financial.
