Jeffrey Skoll Quotes

Young entrepreneurs, in general, feel they're too busy running their companies, which I think is a mistake. But once they're older, you see much more of a propensity to be involved in philanthropy.

Jeffrey Skoll

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I just remember watching Federer the first year he won Wimbledon. He was struggling with his back problem. I remember it vividly. It looked like there was a chance he was not going to finish. He had that look in his eye. Then, somehow, he found the wherewithal to dig a little deeper, and suddenly he wins the thing, and he's a different player.

John McEnroe

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The phrase 'dream career' sounds pretty stupid.

Tom Sturridge

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Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.

Robert Collier

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I was 29 and I really fell in love, I think, for the first time. I was vulnerable in a way I didn't think I could be.

Rosie O'Donnell

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It's not scary to make a horror film because you get to pull back the curtain and see that none of it's real. When you're watching one, the terror bombards you.

Josh Hartnett

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Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot, and orders so vast the mind struggles to embrace them.

Diane Ackerman

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We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.

Douglas Coupland

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Those big films are scary things. There's so much money behind those things. There's that hype. You enter a machine.

Chris Pine

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If you're ever being typecasted - as most of us are - that's a great way to be typecasted. So, 'The Rifleman' is still popular with a lot of people, and I'm proud to be associated.

Chuck Connors

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Once you catch that fever of wrestling, you really can't get it out.

Bobby Lashley

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I started running away when I was five years old. It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized what I really wanted was somebody to come after me when I was running away.

Willie Aames

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Additionally, this tax forces family businesses to invest in Uncle Sam rather than the economy. When families are forced to repurchase businesses because of the death tax, that means less money is being invested in new jobs and capital expansion.

Todd Tiahrt

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