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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Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
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Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.
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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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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
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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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Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.
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Homophobia is manufactured in high schools, so it's probably useful to keep in mind that it really does bother people.
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Adults are tempted to produce and perform Christmas for their kids and their families, and they arrive at Christmas Day weary and disillusioned.
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Working with children has done well for me. I don't find them intolerable or frustrating. They're just fun, full of energy, and happy to be there.
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I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me.
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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?
