Xavier Niel Quotes
We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet playing Black Sabbath. But you will see a guitar in a clarinet band playing rhythm. It is the most popular instrument in the world; it is the one everybody loves.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.
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I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.
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'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
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Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
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I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative when I'm looking out the window, and my bed and couch have nice views of the New York skyline.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
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I'm not going to say what was being used in the clubhouse; whatever happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse. But it was not like it was in your face.
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If I can go out there and be everywhere on the field, that's what I can control.
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I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
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I believe in forgiveness.
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Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.
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I'm skilled in the Twitter and Instagram sense of the social media verse.
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I had a science teacher in middle school who inspired me... simply because she acknowledged me and made me feel that what I had to offer was worthy.
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They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.
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There's no bias when it comes to facts, and there's no bias when it comes to decency.
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I think the Greeks were the only people ever to nail character. Their heroes are deeply flawed.
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Honestly, I don't focus on what my writing is called. I don't mean to sound artsy and pretentious, I just really can't think of things in that way. For me, the point is telling a story that keeps people up past bedtime, while hopefully exploring ideas that resonate.
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We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.
