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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My job is my sport so I have to make sure that I stay focussed on it. I train almost every day so it takes up a lot of my life and you don't want to bring any new distractions into your life.
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Being impregnated by an alien and giving birth. It'd be awful to give birth to a freak so you'd have to hide it away from everyone but still bring it up as your own.
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I have tried therapy a couple of times, but it hasn't worked.
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Request Magazine: And now we're back to suicide. Some months have passed now since Kurt Cobain killed himself. Judging from his suicide note, it seems as if he thought there was something that was being demanded of him by the music industry or fans or someone, that he either couldn't or didn't want to deliver.
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I have a habit of recording records very quickly - and not in a haphazardly way, not in a way where I'm not focused on details, because I'm a freak when it comes to that.
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It's funny how the smallest things I've done speak the loudest about me, but I like that.
