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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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.
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It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.
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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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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.
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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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I really do believe that inner beauty is so much more than any kind of outer beauty.
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The markets don't like instability and they don't like uncertainty.
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That's always been in my mind my metaphor for a team working really hard on something they're passionate about. It's that through the team, through that group of incredibly talented people bumping up against each other, having arguments, having fights sometimes, making some noise, and working together they polish each other and they polish the ideas, and what comes out are these really beautiful stones.
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I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
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Learning how to interact with customers is something that anyone starting any business must master. It's an amazing opportunity to be able to learn the ropes at an established company and then employ your expertise at your own company.
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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.
