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My theory is that many of the things that move us are things we long for but find hard to do.
Alain de Botton
Long
Find
Move
Us
Hard
Theory
Many
Things
It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.
Alain de Botton
Good
Me
Complicated
Books
Philosophy
Good Reason
Clear
Sound
Reason
Many
The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.
Alain de Botton
War
Respect
Conflict
People
Water
Humiliated
Other
Ways
Those
Intractable
Battles
Status
About
More
Feel
Between
Over
Also
Than
Oil
Want
Them
Land
Who
Many
Even
Deeply
Two
Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can't believe in any of it.
Alain de Botton
Religion
Me
Believe
Though
Seem
Attractive
Any
Many
Moments
Even
You will often be in despair. You will sometimes think it's the worst decision in your life. That's fine. That's not a sign your marriage has gone wrong. It's a sign that it's normal; it's on track. And many of the hopes that took you into the marriage will have to die in order for the marriage to continue.
Alain de Botton
Life
You
Marriage
Sometimes
Decision
Will
Gone
Think
Despair
Took
Worst
Sign
Hopes
Fine
Wrong
Track
Continue
Normal
Die
Often
Order
Your
Many
I'm condemned by some inner compulsion to think about the daily rituals of my life. I have a low grade fever for improving myself in many ways, including everyday tasks.
Alan Alda
Life
Myself
Daily
My Life
Think
Everyday
Ways
Some
About
Compulsion
Rituals
Condemned
Grade
Tasks
Fever
Improving
Low
Many
Including
Inner
I've had many uncanny experiences. I think it's hard to be alive and not have them. But I don't know if I can decide what that means or what they are.
Alan Alda
Think
Alive
Had
Know
Experiences
Decide
Them
Means
Hard
Many
I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fallen in love with the architecture. It certainly wasn't out of some great sense of academic or intellectual achievement. In many ways, my education only began after I'd left university.
Alan Bennett
Love
Education
Great
Achievement
Architecture
Sense
Ways
Out
Some
Only
Fact
Had
Clear
Great Sense
Idea
Academic
Fallen
Go
Intellectual
Left
Began
Oxford
Wanted
After
Apart
Certainly
Many
Even
Why
University
Sad to think that we won't have any new stories from John Updike, one of the last century's masters. But so many here in the two volumes of his collected stories, 186 by my count, stories to read, reread, savor over the course of a cold season. Updike's genius in the short form spills out of these many, many pages.
Alan Cheuse
Sad
Genius
Think
Cold
Savor
Out
Collected
John
Count
Volumes
Over
New
Read
Course
Masters
His
Any
Short
Form
Stories
Century
Pages
Many
Season
Here
Last
Two
I don't judge my effectiveness by how many words I say. I think liberals often see nuances in things... Conservatives tend to see things in black and white. It gives them an air of certainty and conviction that might make them more comfortable to watch.
Alan Colmes
Judge
Words
Black
Black And White
Conviction
White
Think
Conservatives
Air
Liberals
Say
See
More
Gives
Tend
Make
Comfortable
How
Effectiveness
Often
Them
Might
Certainty
Many
Nuances
Things
Watch
I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.
Alan Dershowitz
Time
Family
Me
Natural
School
Back
Once
Could
Never
Call
Learned
Although
Idle
Doing
Came
Same
Going
Taught
Same Time
Poor
Then
Working
Many
Things
Need
There are many levels of truth.
Alan Dershowitz
Truth
Many
Many Levels
Levels
Every celebrity case I've been involved in - I've been involved in a great many - the one thing you can be sure of is they don't get the same justice as everybody else. It could be worse, it could be better, it's never the same.
Alan Dershowitz
Great
You
Justice
Better
Every
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Worse
One Thing
Case
Could
Never
Involved
Sure
Been
Celebrity
Get
Same
The One Thing
Many
Thing
My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.
Alan Dundes
Folklore
Only
Academic
Identity
Courses
Years
Taught
Many
Spy novels are traditionally about lone wolves, but how many people actually live like that?
Alan Furst
People
Live
Lone
About
Like
How
How Many People
Wolves
Spy
Many
Novels
Actually
Moving around a lot allows you to experience many different cultures and learn about the ways that different people in different parts of the country live, and it probably made me somewhat more adventuresome and allowed me to meet my future wife in Pensacola.
Alan G. Poindexter
Future
Me
You
Experience
People
Wife
Made
Country
Live
Meet
Ways
About
More
Somewhat
Allowed
Learn
Parts
Around
Lot
Cultures
Different
Different Cultures
Moving
Different Parts
Different People
Many
I was influenced by many, many different people in my student years, and I was always, I guess, immersed in a Navy environment, and so, obviously, that had a big impact when I decided what I wanted to do was go and be a Navy pilot. I was very familiar with the Navy community and felt very comfortable with it.
Alan G. Poindexter
People
Pilot
Big
Community
Guess
Immersed
Impact
Student
Had
Environment
Obviously
Comfortable
Felt
Always
Go
Years
Big Impact
Very
Familiar
Different
Influenced
Wanted
Decided
Different People
Many
Navy
There is a huge number of people outside our borders who would love to come here. In fact, many of them come here, get well educated, and then are required to leave... This is a factor in income inequality.
Alan Greenspan
Love
People
Our
Would
Borders
Fact
Factor
Outside
Come
Well
Well-Educated
Inequality
Leave
Educated
Huge
Huge Number
Get
Get Well
In Fact
Them
Then
Required
Who
Many
Income
Income Inequality
Here
Number
Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds. Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that, I was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
Alan Greenspan
Fear
Fall
Down
Critical
Slowly
Bubbles
Contagion
Sharply
Look
Forces
Sort
Builds
Causes
Go
Intellectually
Up
Dominant
Very
Shocked
Hits
Size
Which
Apart
Then
Euphoria
Many
Thing
Started
Phenomenon
Right up until the late 18th century, when the first weighted lines were used to probe the ocean depths, many people believed the seas were bottomless - the watery equivalent of infinite outer space.
Alan Huffman
People
Space
First
Ocean
Late
Outer
Outer Space
Weighted
Bottomless
Until
Equivalent
Were
Lines
Up
Infinite
Probe
Century
Depths
Used
Many
Seas
Believed
Right
I started out as a physicist; however, I am what I have become. I have evolved, with the help of many colleagues in the international scientific community, into an interdisciplinary scientist.
Alan J. Heeger
Become
Community
Colleagues
Out
Evolved
Physicist
Scientific
Am
Scientist
However
Help
International
Many
Started
I am oblique; I think that has to do with my own nature. I like trying to do things which work on many levels, because I think it is terribly important to give an audience a lot of things they might not get as well as those they will, so that finally the film does take on a texture and is not just simplistic communication.
Alan J. Pakula
Work
Nature
Communication
Will
Important
Own
Think
Finally
Those
Give
My Own
Oblique
Take
Simplistic
Like
Well
Terribly
Because
Audience
Does
Am
Lot
Texture
Get
Trying
Just
Which
Might
Many
Many Levels
Film
Things
Levels
Rather than serving in the U.S. Senate for almost 20 years or having so many other wonderful life experiences, I could have served a longer sentence in prison for some of the stupid, reckless things I did as a teenager.
Alan K. Simpson
Life
Wonderful
Stupid
Prison
Other
Teenager
Reckless
Some
Life Experiences
Rather
Having
Could
Almost
Longer
Years
Than
Wonderful Life
Senate
Did
Experiences
Sentence
Many
Served
Things
Serving
Since 1993, I have had the rich satisfaction of knowing and working with many openly gay and lesbian Americans, and I have come to realize that 'gay' is an artificial category when it comes to measuring a man or woman's on-the-job performance or commitment to shared goals. It says little about the person.
Alan K. Simpson
Gay
Man
Woman
Commitment
Goals
Rich
Lesbian
Says
About
Had
Shared
Performance
Since
Come
Category
Openly
Knowing
Person
American
Artificial
Little
Realize
Working
Measuring
Many
Satisfaction
Money's dominance over politics isn't merely one problem of many our country faces. It is the problem! It is a growing crisis that prevents us from tackling anything else.
Alan K. Simpson
Politics
Problem
Money
Country
Else
Our
Crisis
Tackling
Faces
Prevents
Merely
Over
Dominance
Anything
Anything Else
Us
Many
Growing
I was always a composer since I was a kid, but the BMI Workshop is where the networking really all stems from. So many writers and influences and ways of communicating all sprang out of the time I was a member of that workshop.
Alan Menken
Time
Kid
Ways
Member
Out
Composer
Networking
Writers
Stems
Since
Always
Where
Influences
Communicating
Really
Many
Workshop
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