Alain de Botton Quotes
Workers were occupied with the ancient task of trying to stay alive, which simply happened to require, in a consumer economy overwhelmingly based on the satisfaction of peripheral desires, a series of activities all to easily confused with clownishness.
Alain de Botton
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
Warren Christopher
Personally I feel, for me, it's tough to do Botox - but it's also tough not to! Sometimes, I think I need the help. Whatever anyone else chooses is fine with me - no judgment.
Naomi Watts
I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It's the most important achievement.
Natalia Vodianova
Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
Salman Rushdie
I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.
Sally Schneider
English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
Yaya Toure
I'd love to be charming and softly spoken, but that's never going to happen.
Louise Wilson
But still, if it's true, how can it be a lie?
Astrid Lindgren
In a way it costs thousands dollars before you could actually go out to put the show on because you'll need equipments, all the lights you know, and that's more just going out and playing you know.
John Deacon
Queen
Life is tricky - you never know what's going to happen.
Dito Montiel
Many people have said to me, "What a pity you had such a big family to raise." "Think of the novels and the short stories and the poems you never had time to write because of that." And I looked at my children and I said, "These are my poems, these are my stories."
Olga Masters
Workers were occupied with the ancient task of trying to stay alive, which simply happened to require, in a consumer economy overwhelmingly based on the satisfaction of peripheral desires, a series of activities all to easily confused with clownishness.
Alain de Botton
