Alain de Botton Quotes
It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries.Alain de Botton
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
Edmund Morgan -
I prefer drama; I think character-driven drama is my favorite kind of stuff to go watch, and I like being challenged by that kind of stuff in that way.
Jacinda Barrett -
All four majors are definitely a priority.
Karrie Webb -
If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.
Randall Jarrell -
I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
Lata Mangeshkar -
Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.
Nancy Pelosi
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You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.
Wayne Dyer -
Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
Kate Clinton -
The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.
Babyface -
I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
Langston Hughes -
Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
Samuel Alexander -
When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you're making a commitment and difference in that person's life. Encouragement really does make a difference.
Zig Ziglar
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Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
Baba Kalyani -
I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.
Karl Lagerfeld -
White sharks and tuna travel for thousands of miles before returning to the same hot spot just as salmon do when they return to the same stream. These journeys are the marine equivalent of wildebeest migrations that take place on the Serengeti plain in Africa.
Barbara Block -
Moviemakers are rewarded with tax write-offs if, when seeking a location that looks like America, they seek it in America.
P. J. O'Rourke -
One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.
Carl Hiaasen -
Waste paper is like a forest - paper recycles itself, generation after generation.
Zhang Yin
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The liberals will surely argue that every person has the right to fall in love with no regard to religion, creed or gender, but I am not that liberal.
Yair Lapid -
If the king refuses the constitution, I shall oppose him; if he accepts it, I shall defend him; and the day on which he gave himself up as my prisoner secured me more fully to his service than if he had promised me half his kingdom.
Marquis de Lafayette -
What I notice about people who are gifted in filmmaking is that they're great thinkers. They engage with big ideas and they engage with people.
Ben Whishaw -
I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do take the work of moral and social responsibilities that ought to be taken on by governments.
Emma Thompson -
I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child's obligation was to learn these usages, not to question them. The complexities of racial deportment were of a piece with learning manners and etiquette more generally.
Drew Gilpin Faust -
It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries.
Alain de Botton