Alain de Botton Quotes

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

Alain de Botton

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• I'm not a very technical musician at all.

  

  Washed Out
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• That's my dream: one day, I want to standing on the stage on Broadway. I sing; my dancing is terrible, but I can be trained. That's my dream. That's something I really want to work on.

  

  Tao Okamoto
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  • Dream
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• The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
  • Death
  • Determined

• Those who go along get along.

  

  Sam Snead
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• The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Development
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• The deepest and most sincere feeling I get is when I meet an artist and they have that steel in their eyes and they have that fire and that passion and all they want is to be a star and to hear themselves on the radio.

  

  L.A. Reid
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  • Eyes
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• I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.

  

  Adam Driver
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• We've come into the world of '1984,' but it turns out to be '1984'-Lite.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Come
  • Turns

• I'm a vulnerable, sensitive person. I overthink everything.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Person
  • Everything

• Know your target audience. Always keep them at the forefront of your mind. Understand their lifestyle and what they are looking for. Gather their feedback and use it to tailor your approach. The voice of the consumer is an essential input into the development of any fashion business or blog.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Mind
  • Business
  • Fashion

• Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Today
  • Free
  • Choices

• As opposed to journalists, politicians cannot make do with questions. They must also offer answers.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Questions
  • Politicians
  • Must

• But I loved doing the physical stuff for 'Dredd.' I have to give a shout-out to the stunt team that I worked with.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Team
  • Doing
  • Loved

• The government believed that adherence to authority was human nature, so the Gezi protests were a real surprise to them. After the initial moment of shock, they decided to severely punish those participating in what they called an act of disobedience to authority.

  

  Safak Pavey
  • Real
  • Nature
  • Government

• I started doing comedy with no plan to do voice work. Voice work came as a function of doing comedy and meeting people who eventually develop shows like that. I didn't seek out from an early age to be on cartoons.

  

  H. Jon Benjamin
  • People
  • Work
  • Age

• That was my dream, to compete against the best surfers in the best waves. But as a kid, it all seemed so unattainable. It was this big dream, but deep down I never thought it could really happen. But my parents always believed I could do it, and they helped me get through all the stages and take all the right steps.

  

  Gabriel Medina
  • Dream
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  • Best

• I've had times where I've joked, like, 'I'm going to move to Vermont and become a painter.' And sometimes that joke felt like, 'Oh that's a good idea.' But it was only, like, a daydream for a moment to, like, escape.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Good
  • Sometimes
  • Moment

• Motherhood is an amazing feeling, and if you get to relive those special moments while working, it works as an icing on the cake. Kids have always been close to my heart, and working with them is a pleasure for me.

  

  Kajol
  • Heart
  • Kids
  • Feeling

• It has to be considered damned unusual that no other union was ever investigated.

  

  Jimmy Hoffa

• Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and see things in sunlit clarity as they actually are.

  

  Huston Smith
  • Clarity
  • Plato
  • Reflections

• Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. For all that can be shaken will be shaken and only the unshakeable remains.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Real
  • Reality
  • Heaven

• I thought the only lonely place was on the moon.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Moon
  • Lonely

• If sometimes our poor people have had to die of starvation, it is not that God didn't care for them, but because you and I didn't give, were not an instrument of love in the hands of God, to give them that bread, to give them that clothing; because we did not recognize him, when once more Christ came in distressing disguise, in the hungry man, in the lonely man, in the homeless child, and seeking for shelter.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • People
  • Men
  • Children

• Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

  

  Alain de Botton
  • Lonely