Xavier Niel Quotes
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It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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You'll probably find most models are incredibly insecure about their bodies.
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With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
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One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!
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You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, she's still on TV.
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What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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I know the fact that I was born means I have to die, so my only aim is to reach out and help someone along the way.
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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
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If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion.
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A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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In football, you are going to have highs and lows, and you have to recognize when you have new opportunities and walk in those.
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It's simple to get a concussion, you know. I don't know how many I've had over my career, you know, but I've definitely had my fair share.
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If the heavens throw you dates, you got to keep your mouth open.
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Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood and dignity of its innumerable and multiplied 'host organisms' into which all of us are drawn/seduced one way or another.
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The ant's a centaur in his dragon world.
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If you know how to make software, then you can create big things.
