Jeffrey Skoll Quotes
Young entrepreneurs, in general, feel they're too busy running their companies, which I think is a mistake. But once they're older, you see much more of a propensity to be involved in philanthropy.

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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
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I believed I was invincible.
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Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.
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When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
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I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
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Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90 insurance companies sell and service flood service insurance. There are more than four million policies covering the total of $800 billion.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
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I think the fame aspect, there was definitely a period when I had to get used to it. My family had to get used to it, too. It's exciting.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
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As soldiers in Israel's army, one of the most grueling training regimens we had to endure was a long march while carrying a comrade on a stretcher.
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You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.
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I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.
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I'd like to consider myself a versatile skater and I like to skate to different kinds of music.
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As each year and debate passes, more broadband companies will start to see that their future lies not in restricting an open Internet but in betting on it.
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We're very interested in helping individuals on the autism spectrum cope and learn about social interactions and regulating emotions.
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I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
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Pretty much from 1979 through 1988, the backbone of my career was the theater. Working on Broadway a couple of times, working off-Broadway, and also doing a lot of regional theater. Make no mistake, I lived very frugally. I had an apartment that was real cheap. I would get two or three jobs per season, and in between I'd be on unemployment.
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Young entrepreneurs, in general, feel they're too busy running their companies, which I think is a mistake. But once they're older, you see much more of a propensity to be involved in philanthropy.