Xavier Niel Quotes
We need to create an ecosystem which will make young people want to start their own company.
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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.
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I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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This is how to avoid re-creating painful situations: Take the time to discover your real intention before you act. If it is to change someone or the world so that you will feel safe or better about yourself, don't act on it, because it is an intention of fear and can create only painful consequences.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.
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When I started 'This American Life', one of the reactions I got was, 'When is the adult going to show up who will host the show?' At some point, people just got used to it.
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I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.
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What's the point of doing a great character in a bad film? Instead, I want audiences to thoroughly enjoy a film and remember my part when they walk out of a cinema hall.
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We need to create an ecosystem which will make young people want to start their own company.
