Xavier Niel Quotes
France has the least social mobility of any developed country. The social elevator no longer works. It's broken.
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If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
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The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them.
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Because I'm a big guy, I was always playing the bad guy or whatever, but after I did 'The Blind Side,' where I played a father who's a really loving, likeable sort of person, a lot of those barriers were broken down. People saw me as something softer, not so much as a heavy anymore.
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I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.
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I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin.
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African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning.
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My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.
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Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.
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We played 'Girl in a Country Song' in front of Scott Borchetta, and he loved it.
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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
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So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country.
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I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.
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Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.
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It's hard to absorb and to allow all that attention and accolades for 'Rent' because the rest of the country doesn't know who we are. Once I walk out of the door of 'Rent,' and I'm on the subway, it doesn't matter. It's an exaggerated sense of fame.
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But we must not, if we are loyal, disperse our energies in a partisan warfare that is waged without regard to its consequences to the well being, security, or honor of the country.
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I think Gil Scott-Heron is a king. He's a brilliant, broken king.
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I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.
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The beauty of our country is that when it was founded that they took some time to lay out civil liberties in the first 10 Amendments - the Bill of Rights. I'm a firm believer in those civil liberties and the ability to have your own opinion.
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It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.
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I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.
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I do want to direct a movie from horseback one day.
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I've got the big name, but I've always wanted to be in a band, one of a band.
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France has the least social mobility of any developed country. The social elevator no longer works. It's broken.
