Alain de Botton Quotes, Trying Quotes, Truthful Quotes

Being funny should be an incidental byproduct of trying to get to something truthful, not a destination in itself.

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I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.

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Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobodyasksme; but if Iamasked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.

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Each of us has a responsibility for being alive: one responsibility to creation, of which we are a part, another to the creator a debt we repay by trying to extend our areas of comprehension.

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I'm sure something will pop into my head here in the midst of this press conference, with all the pressure of trying to come up with an answer, but it hadn't yet.

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Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy or elections.

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We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.

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I cannot describe to you the despairing sensation of trying to do something for a man who seems incapable or unwilling to do anything further for himself.

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The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

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The writing begins when you’ve finished. Only then do you know what you’re trying to say.

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If I were the treasury secretary or head of the Fed, you know, I would try to scare the hell the out of the private sector and say, you better save this because you're going down with the ship.

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I try to follow his example, not to imitate him.

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There's a lot of people that try to come between my clique and try to stop what we're doin', but we got no mercy for 'em.

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I'm working for myself; what else have I got to work for? How can you work for an audience? What do you imagine an audience would want? I have got nobody to excite except myself, so I am always surprised if anyone likes my work sometimes. I suppose I'm very lucky, of course, to be able to earn my living by something that really absorbs me to try to do, if that is what you call luck.

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I wonder if it hurts to live, And if they have to try, And whether, could they choose between, They would not rather die.

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Our label is very digital-friendly. We try to provide some free stuff to get interest in the band, but we have to pay our artists. They have to get paid.

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I truly understand that there is a lesson in everything that happens to us. So I tried not to spend my time asking "Why did this happen to me?" but trying to figure out why I had chosen this.

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I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

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I'm dedicated to bringing to life what the author is trying to portray. I try to make the producers cry and the crew laugh.

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Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

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