Xavier Niel Quotes
It's funny how the smallest things I've done speak the loudest about me, but I like that.
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Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.
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I have been the struggler of the century. Fortunately, everyone loves the underdog.
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
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When I do retire, I will miss the trips with the team, the jokes with my teammates, the habits: having breakfast with them, playing with them, all the little things.
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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I've always wanted to do a period piece.
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All the energy, all the pain, sweat and tears that go into it, the amount I had to put in to get me to where I had to play, it was more taxing on me physically and mentally than it was good for me.
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If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
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In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
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Every training session, I try to simulate the conditions similar to where I am racing.
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If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.
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Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money.
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I've been 5-6 since I've been at least 17 or 18. I think somebody made a mistake on the measurements.
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I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
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I don't want to be away from wrestling even a little.
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One of the reasons that I take such joy in being a trustee of the New York Public Library is the love of reading that I found as a child in the Saturday morning library events for preschoolers and first and second graders as I was growing up in Augusta, GA.
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It's funny how the smallest things I've done speak the loudest about me, but I like that.
