Jeffrey Skoll Quotes
If you can find ways to give people hope that they can achieve something or make a difference, then there's an opportunity for something good to happen.
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
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The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
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Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.
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I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasn't made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.
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Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.
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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.
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Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.
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This Martina Navratilova is a real champion, but with the proper training, I can make miracles happen.
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It's important for me to have my family close.
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Jim Morrison's very good looking, but I don't like this version of the song. The Feliciano version is better.
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I am not thinking about life after football, but I know it will be another life, another world.
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If you can find ways to give people hope that they can achieve something or make a difference, then there's an opportunity for something good to happen.
