Jeffrey Skoll Quotes
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister -
My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
J. Michael Straczynski -
I think I've owned all the models of iPods so far. And these days between my iPod, iPhone and my personal laptop computer, I'm someone who is very, very grateful for all the ways to listen to music and completely switch off from people around me and listen to the music in detail, which is very hard to do if you're in a room with other people.
Ian Anderson -
I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
Sam Neill -
There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
Walead Beshty -
Leading from behind doesn't work.
Ted Cruz
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Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.
Hale Irwin -
I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
Laini Taylor -
It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
Laura Linney -
Making music is fantastic.
Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran -
The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.
Laura Riding -
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
Samuel Butler
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I realized that, all along, my theory was right: Make music that you want to hear, and instead of having fans that one day might criticize or abandon you, your fans aren't even fans. They're people with tastes similar to yours. They're friends you haven't met yet.
Natalia Kills -
I still haven't found the humor in getting hit by a cement truck. My knees still hurt when I think about it, so no jokes about that yet.
Adam DeVine -
Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
Fareed Zakaria -
To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.
Major Taylor -
I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
Manuel Puig -
I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!'
Gabrielle Union
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As soon as a regular guy like Bill Clinton becomes the president, he wears a mantle of greatness. He's the president.
Lydia Millet -
We are in a time, because of the proliferation of online media and a hundred channels on cable, where teenagers and young adults and eight- and nine-year-olds do not read enough. And the SAT is very unforgiving for students who do not read.
Jonathan Grayer -
I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.
Ian Rankin -
When I was young, I was very shy and quiet, because we moved all the time. My dad was in the Navy, so we moved every two years.
Kimberly Willis Holt -
I like to wear my dad's shoes to auditions as sort of a lucky thing. I feel like I'm on solid ground.
Bill Pullman -
My dad always wanted to sail. They lived on a boat for eight years.
Jeffrey Skoll