Xavier Niel Quotes
Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
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Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.
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Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.
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For me, my number one Hollywood role model is Jennifer Lopez.
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Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.
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I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.
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My own experience, though, as a business executive and as a governor, tells me that businesses are interested in a lot more than a low tax rate when they decide where to locate.
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I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35.
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Wisdom is a sacred communion.
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I take care of myself and take antioxidating supplements suggested by my best friend and first fan - he takes care of my Internet presence - Doctor Mario Rosario Porzio. I eat well - in fact, very well.
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I don't think I've ever seen pie advertised. That's how you know it's good. They advertise ice cream and other desserts. They advertise the bejeezus out of yogurt, but I haven't seen one pie commercial.
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More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.
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My parents live in the part of the United States that is Canada. It is so far north that Minnesota lies in the same direction as Miami. They have four distinct seasons: Winter, More Winter, Still More Winter, and That One Day Of Summer.
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California must be a really big fan of the 'Hunger Games.' Because it's always catching fire.
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My kids know the importance of being active – and that's why teaming up with the USTA was such an organic fit for me. They are making strives to get families outside – and using tennis as a way to get kids to stay active.
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I'm a big fan of the poet Mary Jo Salter, and although she doesn't need to be discovered at all - she's widely admired and anthologized and extremely accomplished - I wish she were a household name.
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There are artists or filmmakers or cinematographers who have had long careers who, maybe to reinvent themselves or just to stay in a secure place, layer it on or ham it up, if I can use that expression, or make grand choices that don't feel as authentic as what they did to make us fall in love with them in the first place.
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I think when a lot of actors hear improv, they think of throwing a line in or doing a slightly different take.
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What I worry about is the lack of understanding in society around the world that there is a divide in the world between those who have and those who do not.
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My album was recorded in Nashville. It used to be all about "We're from Texas, forget Nashville," well you'll never hear me say that. Nashville isn't bad as long as you're true to yourself.
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On YouTube you can still watch the documentary Let There Be Light, by the great Hollywood director John Huston, which shows men undergoing hypnosis to treat “war neurosis.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.
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Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
