Jeffrey Skoll Quotes
My goal is to make the biggest difference possible in the world. I have only so many resources and so much time.
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It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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When you go back and really listen to the legendary rappers, this is timeless music. Guys like Biggie, guys like Pac, timeless music.
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Teenagers did not have, before rock 'n' roll and rhythm-and-blues - they did not have any type of music they could call their own once they got over 4 or 5 years old until they were well into their 20's and considered adults.
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Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.
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We say that our objective is to conquer complete independence, to install a people's power, to construct a new society without exploitation, for the benefit of all those who feel themselves to be Mozambicans.
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Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it?
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Don't take 'no' for an answer.
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I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my passion.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
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I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.
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For a long time, I so badly wanted to work with Jeremy Piven, and I ended up on 'Mr. Selfridge' with him. He was such a character - so brilliant to work with.
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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.
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Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.
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The constant attention is what is so difficult.
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My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.
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Shaving half my head was a look that meant I could go punkier with my style.
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One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.
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Our board has voted on them being the vendor depending on the money coming from the state and everything.
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A highly developed moral nature joined to an undeveloped intellectual nature, an undeveloped artistic nature, and a very limited religious nature, is of necessity repulsive. It represents a bit of human nature - a good bit, of course, but a bit only - in disproportionate, unnatural and revolting prominence.
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An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.
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My father was an insurance man and a small-time gambler. He was a good man, but he had an eye for the racehorses, and I saw how it used to bother my mother. I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all those years in Vegas.
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My goal is to make the biggest difference possible in the world. I have only so many resources and so much time.
