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.

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• Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Thinking
  • Hate
  • Loyalty

• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• I can paint in jail.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • I Can
  • Paint
  • Jail

• I couldn't follow nobody's rules.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Rules
  • Follow
  • Nobody

• As the law minister, I had ensured that the government's right to natural resources was protected. The result was evident. The honourable Supreme Court gave the landmark decision in RIL vs RNRL case that the government is the owner of all natural resources.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Law
  • Government
  • Decision

• I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Small
  • Travel
  • Summer

• When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Purpose
  • Mad
  • Partner

• 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
  • Help
  • Think
  • Tough

• I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It's the most important achievement.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Important
  • Family
  • Giving

• 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
  • Earth
  • Habit
  • Common

• 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
  • Up
  • Job
  • Want

• 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
  • Space
  • Football
  • English

• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Business
  • American

• Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Never
  • Smart
  • Living

• If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Business
  • Problem
  • Bank

• I just wanted to play as long as I could. When you stop playing, you're not going to get it back. When you don't enjoy it, that's the time to pack it in.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Time
  • Long
  • Stop

• I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Me
  • Scared
  • Studio

• I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Life
  • Time
  • Fly

• I love being physical, but I am extreme either way. I can be superfit. And then I can be really lazy and ignore everything.

  

  Lena Headey
  • Ignore
  • Lazy

• I always switch off from the business when I go across the threshold. Home is home, and I try to keep it that way.

  

  John Caudwell
  • Home
  • Business

• I'm not a neat freak. I don't mind things being messy but I mind them being dirty. I just can't relax in a dirty environment. I like things organized.

  

  Leah Remini
  • Mind
  • Environment
  • Dirty

• I've got a lot that I want to do, so I would like to expand my empire, for sure. I love it.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Love
  • Want
  • Like

• We've turned film into such an industry that we pursue naturalism just by shaking the camera and cutting the film to ribbons to provoke a bogus sense of documentary. But we haven't done the homework. To push the depth that the Actor's Studio did or the Russian theatres did with their actors is to rehearse, to spend time, to dig, to excavate.

  

  Ben Foster
  • Time
  • Done
  • Cutting

• 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
  • Trying
  • Confused