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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I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.
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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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Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
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But we wanted to work in a way we never had, which was write everything together. We had to face each other in the same creative room, which gets tougher as you get older, because you don't want to be confrontational.
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Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.
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The gene therapies on my body are to measure the effects on humans. There is plenty of animal research to support these gene therapies but no one was conducting human tests.
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My story is the American Dream, a hundred percent.
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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.
