Xavier Niel Quotes
We have to help young people, because at the end of the day, we won't have an economy if we don't have them.
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I've had laser eye surgery and I don't wear glasses any more, so people just go, 'You're not Damien Hirst.' I don't get recognized on the street.
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The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.
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We all have stories for a reason, and if we keep them to ourselves, I don't feel they would help anybody.
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When you built television sets, you have all this test equipment. And you'd have all these lines and squares on the screen to test it. So it occurred to me that it might be fun for people to control the lines and squares on the screen.
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Everything's always about being homogenized and following in a group. The people who stand out always have the most problems.
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I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it's important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It's best to not force it, but let it happen organically and genuinely.
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I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.
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From the consumer perspective, what happened in the U.S. 10 years ago and Europe five years ago is now happening in Russia. People are beginning to understand that e-commerce is easy and safe.
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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
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I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.
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A lot of people tell me, 'You are from North; how do you manage to get along in the South?' I don't know what to say to them. I've always felt at home here, and by learning to speak Telugu, my connection with the place has gotten that much stronger.
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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I feel like, sometimes, when things are just handed to people, in a way, right away, you don't get a sense of what the rejection and the struggle is like that comes along with life.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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Sports in Indonesia aren't being supported by the government. The rewards you get as a young player don't match the effort you put in. I want to be different from other athletes, if not better, and I want to make something good out of my profile and help the younger players have opportunities.
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Although China is not so wealthy and powerful as the West, her people of whatever condition - rich or poor, high or low - all enjoy a perfect freedom and a happy life. Not so all the inhabitants of Western lands.
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I was trying to sound like some of the people I was listening to, like Mala and Coki.
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Most people stop looking when they find the proverbial needle in the haystack. I would continue looking to see if there were other needles.
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Music helps me immeasurably in the writing process.
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Back when I was young, lists seemed like fences on the open range. But secretly, I was pleased to be corralled among other literary thoroughbreds.
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There are no hidden depths to me.
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We have to help young people, because at the end of the day, we won't have an economy if we don't have them.
