Jeffrey Skoll Quotes
It's a real concern of mine every day. What can we do? How much can we do? How quickly can we address all these important things?
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.
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Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.
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I'm not an American, but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my dad living here for five years, my godfather being an American who I'm very close to.
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A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.
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Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
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Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.
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Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!
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Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.
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People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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I'm constantly maxing out my Gmail account, and that is hard to do.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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You cannot underestimate people's ability to spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. It's a big reason why so many companies that have dipped a toe in social media waters have failed miserably.
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Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.
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I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.
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It's fun to have money, but the more money I get, the less interesting it becomes. If you don't have very much, you have to think about it. If you are starving, you become interested in food. If you are struggling to pay the bills, money becomes tragically important.
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I love working with rotoscopic animation because under the incredible handpainted artwork are real actors and real human performances.
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You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.
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Having that Christian base keeps me focused on what I have to do. It keeps me out of the clubs and in the gym.
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It's a real concern of mine every day. What can we do? How much can we do? How quickly can we address all these important things?
