Xavier Niel Quotes

France has the least social mobility of any developed country. The social elevator no longer works. It's broken.

Xavier Niel

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I don't like to date so much as I just like to kind of, you know, run into somethin', man.

Joe Namath

ManYouKnowKindRunJust

I think that the ideal of parenting can make people unhappy. It's that this lie that they're being told by society that parenting is one thing - and when parenting is something completely different - that's what makes them unhappy.

Jessica Valenti

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I think, if you've got children, that's your life. Your 'showbiz' life, if you want to call it that, is a separate thing, and it isn't everything to me.

Rob Brydon

LifeChildrenMeThinkYouWant

I have never felt at any point in my life, good or bad, any ill will ever from the man or woman on the street.

Rob Lowe

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I think all of the secrets of the universe are revealed in history. We understand who we are by understanding where we've been and why we are the way we are, and where we come from.

Matt Barr

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Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

Milan Kundera

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Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.

Don Rickles

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To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.

Dick Gregory

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In the pulpit, we're supposed to present the teaching with all of its unvarnished clarity, but when you step out of the pulpit, you have to meet people where they are and try to walk with them.

Donald Wuerl

WalkStepPeoplePresentYouMeet

I have no idea what the economics of the movie business is, especially with all the new Amazon, Netflix, Showtime, AMC, SyFy, and HBO series. But I am intrigued with what feels like a new type of show - the six-to-eight-hour movie. It's a little too long to watch in one setting, but you can watch it over a three- to five-day period.

Brad Feld

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I had wanted to be a movie star and had thought I would be a movie star since I was very little. It was just something I saw in my future. But somehow when it happened, I wasn't ready for it.

Brooke Adams

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I'm very good at daydreaming. Ask any of my schoolteachers.

Bruce Dickinson

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