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There's a certain kind of insular, old-fashioned, upper-class Britishness that gives me the spooks. I am sure that comes from a boarding-school trauma.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Am Certain Gives Kind Me Old-Fashioned Sure Trauma Upper-Class I Am

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I think a certain degree of pessimism is actually helpful to love.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Actually Certain Certain Degree Degree Helpful Love Pessimism Think To Love I Think

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My greatest joy comes from creativity: from feeling that I have been able to identify a certain aspect of human nature and crystallise a phenomenon in words.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Able Aspect Been Certain Creativity Feeling Greatest Human Human Nature Identify Joy Nature Phenomenon Words

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We have to put aside the customary historical reading of works of art in order to invite art to respond to certain quite specific pains and dilemmas of our psyches.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Art Aside Certain Dilemmas Historical Invite Order Our Pains Put Quite Reading Respond Specific Works

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It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.

~Alan Alda

Topics: Certain Clear Freshness Hang Ideas Life Longer Lose Me Onto Other Really Replaced Shelf Shelf Life Something Sometimes Than Time You

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To do a musical takes a tremendous amount of energy because you have to act and sing at the same time. And everything has to be precise. Because you can't forget the lyrics because the band keeps playing, you know, and you're under a certain amount of pressure.

~Alan Alda

Topics: Act Amount Band Because Certain Energy Everything Forget Keeps Know Lyrics Musical Playing Precise Pressure Same Same Time Sing Takes Time Tremendous Tremendous Amount You

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You hit a certain age, and you haven't died yet, and you become an elder statesman. I think I get a lot of applause because I'm not keeling over.

~Alan Arkin

Topics: Age Applause Because Become Certain Certain Age Died Elder Get Hit Lot Over Statesman Think You I Think

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I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did.

~Alan Arkin

Topics: Age Analyze Certain Certain Things Did Eight Even Me Move Moved People Performance Realize Seven Six Things Tried Used Watch Why World Would I Tried

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We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community anymore.

~Alan Ball

Topics: Alienation Any Anymore Certain Community Factor Live Real Real Sense Sense Time Where

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There will always be nations. The United States will last a long, long time, I believe. France and Germany and Japan, China, other nations, they're going to exist. But they're losing their significance and ability to deal with certain matters.

~Alan Cranston

Topics: Ability Always Believe Certain China Deal Exist France Germany Going Japan Last Long Long Time Losing Matters Nations Other Significance States Time United United States Will I Believe

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