Alain de Botton Quotes
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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.
Garry Trudeau -
I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
Captain Beefheart -
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.
Jack Ma -
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!'
Jacki Weaver -
I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
Danica McKellar -
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.
Naomi Watts
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
Felicity Huffman -
You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
Ulrich Beck -
Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.
Mallory Ortberg -
One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
K. A. Applegate -
Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
Ted Shackelford -
Custom adapts itself to expediency.
Tacitus
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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.
Gabriel Macht -
Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
Dana Spiotta -
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.
LaToya Jackson -
I know a lot of single people who are not miserable as society tells them they're supposed to be.
Edith Pearlman -
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.
E. F. Benson -
Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.
J. Philippe Rushton
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If the Rolling Stones are playing a concert across town, that's not my audience anyways. But I do find that there's a lot of people coming back around to see me again.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks -
As fears about the energy and environmental crises reach a fever pitch, we're all searching for solutions. And one possibility is that we could fix everything if we'd just shrink our population back down to about 2 billion people - which would put us roughly where we were at 80 years ago.
Annalee Newitz -
I am neither such a great songwriter or such a great singer that the world must hear my album. There's just no point to make.
Anna Kendrick -
Ukraine is facing a serious threat of isolation as some local political forces want to put an end to democracy and democratic reforms in the country
Viktor Yushchenko -
I think people, especially the press, like to pick on children of famous people and I think that's fucking awful. Things get made up. It's so, so sad. And there's absolutely nothing you can do about it as a 16-year-old. You're like, Why? What did I do?
Dakota Johnson -
Happiness may be difficult to obtain. The obstacles are not primarily financial.
Alain de Botton