Jeffrey Skoll Quotes

At Participant, I am the board. I am the sole greenlight at the company. If something happened to me, that would be a problem.

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• Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Space
  • Violence
  • Architecture

• I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
  • Kind
  • Never
  • Socks

• I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.

  

  T.I.
  • Mind
  • Career
  • Attention

• I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Story
  • Write
  • Upbringing

• I don't have contempt for Tiger Woods.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Tiger
  • Woods
  • Tiger Woods

• Belief is not restricted to a brief affirmation based on imitation; rather, it has degrees and stages of development. It is like a seed growing into a fully grown, fruit-bearing tree; like the sun's image in a mirror or in a drop of water to its images on the sea's surface and to the sun itself.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Growing
  • Water
  • Sun

• I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Popular
  • Own
  • Most

• This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Life
  • World
  • Spiritual

• For decades, community colleges have been the backbone of American workforce training. Because they are nimble and closely attuned to local community needs, they are inherently positioned to be influential leaders of the movement for a sustainable economy.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • American
  • Community
  • Training

• I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Nice
  • Day
  • Regret

• Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Evil
  • Enough
  • Admit

• Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Moving
  • Direction
  • Turn

• I listen to all kinds of music, but I've always been a really big fan of Top 40 radio. If I'm in my car, that's what I listen to.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Music
  • Car
  • Listen

• As a source of objective morality, the Bible is one of the worst books we have. It might be the very worst, in fact-if we didn't also happen to have the Qur'an.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Bible

• For each human being there is an optimum ratio between change and stasis. Too little change, he grows bored. Too little stability, he panics and loses his ability to adapt.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Bored

• Jupiter: I committed the first crime by creating men as mortals. After that, what more could you do, you the murderers?Aegisteus: Come on; they already had death in them: at most you simply hastened things a little.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Men
  • Death

• Más llanto que llorar es ver llorar.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• It was so odd to have young kids singing 'Lovin' Feelin' because they knew it from 'Top Gun.'

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
  • Kids
  • Singing
  • Gun

• Human consensus does not generate reality. Were it able to do so, the Sun would have taken to orbiting the Earth some time ago.

  

  Ursula Goodenough
  • Time
  • Reality
  • Earth

• By the mid-'60s, recorded music was much more like painting than it was like traditional music. When you went into the studio, you could put a sound down, then you could squeeze it around, spread it all around the canvas.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Music
  • Painting
  • Canvas

• It's something I think about: children are such a blessing.

  

  Jacqui Ainsley
  • Children

• Let a Secretary of Peace be appointed.

  

  Benjamin Banneker
  • Peace
  • Secretary

• There is nothing so delightful as the hearing, or the speaking of truth. For this reason, there is no conversation so agreeable as that of the man of integrity, who hears without any intention to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive.

  

  Plato
  • Truth
  • Conversation
  • Hearing

• At Participant, I am the board. I am the sole greenlight at the company. If something happened to me, that would be a problem.

  

  Jeffrey Skoll