Alain de Botton Quotes
To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one’s ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity.
Alain de Botton
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I started coming up to New York at age 17. There was a girl I met over the summer somewhere; I was chasing her. I would drive up to D.C., where I had made some friends, which was about four hours away, and we would take the bus up to New York.
Garth Risk Hallberg
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I've talked to law enforcement officials at the state and local level who say that violence against women is going up. In any case, we think that it's an important issue whether it's going up or not. And we are determined to stop it.
Patricia Ireland
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I work out in a studio. Every day, regardless where I am, at least two hours. I need it. I can't cease it.
Gabriela Sabatini
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When I was little, I had concerts on the subway, and old ladies came up to me like, 'You are so good!'
Zara Larsson
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Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
H. L. Mencken
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We believe that societies and economies only advance as far as individuals are free to carry them forward. And just as freedom cannot exist when people are imprisoned for their political views, true opportunity cannot exist when people are imprisoned by sickness, or hunger, or darkness.
Barack Obama
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When I was little, I had concerts on the subway, and old ladies came up to me like, 'You are so good!'
Zara Larsson
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Animals... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals until they happen to do it right because they don't really know what you want.
Bruce Greenwood
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Etgar means "challenge." And my family name is Keret, which means "urban." So my name is "urban challenge." My joke is, it's a good description of a birth but a strange name for a human being.
Etgar Keret
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I wish sometimes that I could be Daniel Day-Lewis and say, 'You know what? If you want me to do this, I'm going to need a year to prepare myself.' But if I do that, they'll say, 'Thank you very much,' and they'll take someone else.
Marion Cotillard
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To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one’s ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity.
Alain de Botton