Jeffrey Skoll Quotes

My views tend to be centrist. I'm not a big fan of George W., but my politics tend to be more Republican than not.

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• I have no political ax to grind; I just find it absurd that huge billion-dollar corporations can take over elections. I just find it insane that, for instance, we give tax breaks to people like myself making millions of dollars, while there're no tax breaks for working people. That, to me, is not a political issue, that's a life issue.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Life
  • Political

• I remember doing one of those computer careers tests. It told me I'd make an ideal HGV lorry driver because I've got 100 per cent spatial awareness. I'd be able to back them into tight parking spots.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Doing

• I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Believe
  • Energy
  • Shift

• The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • You
  • Always
  • Better

• We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We're inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, 'Gimme, gimme, gimme,' you will always be in short supply.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • World
  • Live
  • Happy

• Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Society
  • Teacher
  • Humility

• I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • Different
  • Character
  • Think

• I haven't seen it this busy since I've been an IndyCar driver. So I think that's a great kind of thing that's happening for the IndyCar Series, in general, right now. But it's an event that I'm very proud to be part of. I love it. I can't wait to come back next year.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Proud
  • Right
  • Part

• I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • People
  • Believe
  • American

• I grew up in New York City. In elementary school, I was a charter member of the Scribble Scrabble Club, and in high school, my poems were published in an anthology of student poetry.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Game
  • Day
  • Football

• It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Writing
  • Relax
  • Profession

• Some comics don't like it when people talk during the set, and it does get a little bit annoying after awhile, but I basically let people dictate what jokes I'm going to do.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Going
  • Jokes

• I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play. But I do love British film as well.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Good
  • Work
  • Play

• You can't meditate on walking or certain human habits. You concentrate too much on the way you walk, and you'll start walking pretty weird.

  

  Beck
  • Pretty
  • Weird
  • Walking

• Every time I go to big events, it's a trip. I feel like that kid who shouldn't really be there.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Time
  • Like
  • Feel

• I think that, in the end, the military behavior and intelligence services are not very different from each other. It's an attitude of hunters; they're observing the prey.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Different
  • Military
  • Attitude

• Never dip lower than you can dip.

  

  Gary Busey
  • You
  • Never
  • Dip

• If a woman isn't being hazed, she's not being tested; therefore, she is not being trusted.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • She

• Whether it's a double take or a spit take or an extra-long pause before a reaction or a line, I try to be as cognizant as possible about the technical end of it. So I think the physical stuff works easier for me than maybe for others who are more just going on instinct.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris
  • Long

• Between 'Avengers,' 'JLA/Avengers,' and 'Trinity,' I've gotten down and dirty in the big universes and had a hell of a time playing in those sandboxes.

  

  Kurt Busiek
  • Time
  • Dirty

• I do know it's great to have a support from a fan base of a team. Football is such a team game, such a team aspect to it... Good things happen, the praise is spread around; and bad things happen, usually it's not just one person's fault.

  

  Andrew Luck
  • Good
  • Great
  • Bad

• Technology and the Internet are not just changing politics here in the U.S. It's also happening abroad. In the Philippines, where I grew up, grassroots organizers used text messaging to help overthrow a president.

  

  Jose Antonio Vargas
  • Up
  • Help
  • Technology

• My views tend to be centrist. I'm not a big fan of George W., but my politics tend to be more Republican than not.

  

  Jeffrey Skoll