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Person Quotes by Alain de Botton
- I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day- to- day take on things. The bare facts of life are utterly terrifying.…
- Perhaps the easiest people to fall in love with are those about whom we know nothing. Romances are never as pure as those we imagine…
- Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.
- The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
- It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the…
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- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important. — Mary Kay Ash
- Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not… — Mary Kay Ash
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- A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions. — Arthur Ashe