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.

Xavier Niel

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• I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Love
  • Want
  • Forever

• 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.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Know
  • Me
  • Wonder

• There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.

  

  Irvin Kershner
  • Interesting
  • Face
  • Landscape

• 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.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • World
  • Country
  • Black

• It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • World
  • Word
  • Survival

• The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • People
  • Up
  • Fight

• I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Power
  • Found
  • Delhi

• '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.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Love

• 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.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • World
  • Men
  • Live

• 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.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Up
  • Nice
  • Creative

• 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.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Death

• I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Religion
  • Dog

• 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.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Face
  • Going
  • Used

• If I can go out there and be everywhere on the field, that's what I can control.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Control
  • I Can
  • Go

• I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.

  

  Beck
  • Kind
  • Like
  • Personality

• I believe in forgiveness.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Believe
  • Forgiveness

• 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.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Charity

• I'm skilled in the Twitter and Instagram sense of the social media verse.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Media
  • Social Media
  • Twitter

• When you're as plain as I am, you've gotta have a gimmick.

  

  Ralph Hall
  • Plain
  • Gimmick

• It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Me
  • Learn

• I never had any classes or went to theatre school like a lot of actors, so all of my training has been on stage with different directors. That was a pretty good school room.

  

  James Denton
  • Good
  • Different
  • School

• I'm always writing. A friend of mine once said, 'You avoid re-writing by writing.' Which is kind of a good point, because re-writing seems to be mostly about craft, and writing is just, like, getting out your passion on a piece of paper.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Friend

• Yeah, I shoot. I shot with my dad a little bit when I was little. He was a Marine, so it wasn't like he would take me to the ballet. We would go to a shooting range. It was the only thing he knew to teach his little girl how to do.

  

  Jill Wagner
  • Girl
  • Dad
  • Ballet

• 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.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • School
  • Kids
  • Hope