Jeffrey Skoll Quotes

As an industry, the film industry is better than most. It's not perfect - I wish every company would carbon-offset their productions - but it's better than one would expect.

Jeffrey Skoll

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Almost half our representatives in Washington apparently know more about science than our scientists. Or they pretend to, because big corporations give them a lot of money to make sure they can keep doing the destructive things that they do.

Jimmy Kimmel

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Toward the end of school I started watching movies. Got a job in a movie theater in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Jim McKay

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I'm like a dude. Jordans are my favorite. I wear them all the time for shows. I can get girly-girly when I want to, but I can't perform in heels. I would bust my face open on stage, and we don't want that.

Rita Ora

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Some of the people who look the most normal are probably the maddest people trying to look normal.

Roddy Doyle

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Mandy Sutter's 'Bush Meat' triumphs in its lean prose and true dialogue, in its disarming humour, in its evocation of a family divided by sexism and racism in 1960s Nigeria.

Rory MacLean

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By modulating the amount of blue in our environment, we can help people to relax, or to be alert; to fall asleep, or to stay awake.

Rogier van der Heide

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It's really interesting to go back to '93 or '94 and listen to that music, like the I'll Lead You Home record.

Michael W. Smith

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Celtel established a mobile phone network in Africa at a time when investors told me that there was no market for mobile phones there.

Mo Ibrahim

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When we first met, I was probably six layers down in the military structure, but General McChrystal at that time was a soldier's leader, and he was part of the task force. So everyone developed close relationships.

Chris Fussell

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In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.

Bruce Springsteen

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I am the product of those who believed in me.

Brian Tyree Henry

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