Jeffrey Skoll Quotes
We gravitated to the idea of social entrepreneurs when it was a fairly nascent thing. We began to build the organization, focused on investing in and celebrating social entrepreneurs. Not long after that, we realized there was another opportunity to help bring them together and tell their stories.
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I never feel with the fashion stuff that it's too fake. If I was a model and had a working part in Fashion Week, then I might feel like that, but I'm just a visitor. I really only walk in and watch the shows and think, 'Maybe I could wear that in a video.' I meet the designer, say hello, and then I go.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
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Remember this: classics never make a comeback. They wait for that perfect moment to take the spotlight from overdone, tired trends.
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I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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I'm one of those guys who has to have a constant something going inside and in front of my face. If not, I get in trouble.
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Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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I have lifestyle requirements. Photos, meetings, lunches, dinners, facial care, tooth care. It requires an exorbitant amount of money.
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We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful destructive forces of nature. We are capable of doing wonderful and selfless things but also self-absorbed and harmful things. This is the world we live in.
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Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
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For seven years I did very little theatre, and I have to make up some time.
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Writing changed my life. It has an existential dimension, and that's the same for every writer. Every artist has a moment of awakening, of happening upon an idea that grabs hold of you, regardless of whether you are a painter or a writer.
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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The distance between number one and number two is always a constant. If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you. That is a big lesson. I cannot just expect the organization to improve if I don't improve myself and lift the organization, because that distance is a constant.
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Of all the mountain ranges I have climbed, I like the Sierra Nevada the best.
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I want to be the player who hits home runs, drives in runs.
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Apparently Bolivia is the key source of lithium in the world. So we're gonna trade the Saudis for the Bolivians.
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We gravitated to the idea of social entrepreneurs when it was a fairly nascent thing. We began to build the organization, focused on investing in and celebrating social entrepreneurs. Not long after that, we realized there was another opportunity to help bring them together and tell their stories.
