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 skilled in the Twitter and Instagram sense of the social media verse.
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Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.
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When I was about nine years old, I announced to my mother that I was going to cook Thanksgiving dinner. And I went to the library and got this whole pile of books. I'd love to say it all turned out great. It didn't. But, sort of, from that point on, whenever there was serious cooking at home, I was the one who did it.
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Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
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People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work.
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I've learned to ignore the negative people and just be a living example of confidence and self-love.
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I bought a trench coat from Dubai worth 495 dirham.
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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As the economy faces such difficulties, more tough questions need to be asked about what the Tories would do if elected. Their ideology of free markets and small government needs challenging. That has to be part of our job.
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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.
