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.
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I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
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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.
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I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.
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I don't have contempt for Tiger Woods.
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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.
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I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.
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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.
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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.
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Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Más llanto que llorar es ver llorar.
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It was so odd to have young kids singing 'Lovin' Feelin' because they knew it from 'Top Gun.'
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Eviction affects old folks and young folks, sick people and able-bodied people, white communities and African-American communities.
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If you're talented and hardworking, great - good for you. You're gonna make it; you're gonna go places. But if you're talented and don't have the work element behind it, the guy that works harder is going to eventually outpace you and outrun you.
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You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom.
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He did a great job of telling them, 'Hey, this program is not where we want it to be. But we're not making a change. And we're going into next year with this coaching staff.' It was fortunate, just for our peace of mind, that Joel was with us on the trip.
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When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
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'The Shining,' 'A Nightmare on Elm Street,' 'Halloween.' Those are the greats.
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We have to move away from the entirely ad-supported business because the needs of it means that it has to keep driving into privacy, and that's not good for anyone because we all need to have something about us that is secret from some people.
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At Participant, I am the board. I am the sole greenlight at the company. If something happened to me, that would be a problem.
