Alain de Botton Quotes
Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.Alain de Botton
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When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.
Laini Taylor -
I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.
Ferran Adria -
There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
Samuel Butler -
I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.
Maajid Nawaz -
I remember 'Def Comedy Jam' being a big deal and kids talking about it in school, but it was never, 'I want to do that.'
Hannibal Buress -
Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.
Yuna
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Imagine if I'd said, 'I have to be the best actress - I want that and nothing else.' I never would have directed. I never would have produced. I never would have done a beauty line. I would have just worried about getting a job or been frustrated that I wasn't getting the job that I wanted. I was ready to be a businesswoman.
Salma Hayek -
The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.
M. Stanton Evans -
I don't program or code or anything like that.
Rand Paul -
Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.
Larry David -
Are we disheartened by the breakup of the family? Nobody who ever met my family is.
P. J. O'Rourke -
No government functions without the grease of corruption.
Carlos Fuentes
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I walked into a gunfight with a knife to kill you, and cut you so fast when your blood spilled it was still blue.
Eminem -
In the inescapable flux, there is something that abides; in the overwhelming permanence, there is an element that escapes into flux. Permanence can be snatched only out of flux; and the passing moment can find its adequate intensity only by its submission to permanence.
Alfred North Whitehead -
I, along with something like 5 million other people, insure to enable me to go into hospital on the day I want; at the time I want, and with a doctor I want.
Margaret Thatcher -
You just learn to cope with whatever you have to cope with. I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and buses. And you know what you learn if you’re a New Yorker? The world doesn’t owe you a damn thing.
Lauren Bacall -
If we are going to spend the bulk of our public dollars on the affluent - at least when it comes to housing - we should own up to that decision and stop repeating the canard about this rich country being unable to afford more.
Matthew Desmond -
I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand.
Don Adams
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Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I'm no real expert on China.
Max Baucus -
Girls don't really recognize me on the street. No one has tried to serenade me or rip my shirt off.
Mark Salling -
I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.
Rachel Zoe -
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
Paul Valery -
Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.
Alain de Botton