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

• 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

• Eviction affects old folks and young folks, sick people and able-bodied people, white communities and African-American communities.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • People
  • American
  • Sick

• I've come to understand that the truth isn't really what's important...what really matters is what people agree is the truth. -Greymane

  

  Ian Cameron Esslemont
  • People
  • Important
  • Truth

• So many of the great songs are written in response to some cataclysmic event. You can't make that happen; it just happens. So you wait for life to happen, and it informs your art. And when life catches you by surprise, that can lead to the best art.

  

  Dan Wilson
  • Life
  • Art
  • Surprise

• We have to believe there's someone out there who knows what happened and can provide the information we need on this tragic case. It's quite possible that the boat we're looking for may have been moved to another state and, hopefully, additional publicity will encourage someone to step forward if they have seen any boat matching the description of what we are looking for.

  

  Gary Owens
  • Information
  • Case
  • Tragic

• So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Men
  • Science
  • Moon

• 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