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Jeffrey Skoll Quotes

When I first moved to Hollywood from Silicon Valley, I had some misgivings. But I found that there were some advantages to being in Hollywood. And, in fact, some advantages to owning your own media company. And I also found that Hollywood and Silicon Valley have a lot more in common than I would have dreamed.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: canadian
Birth: January 16, 1965

Topics

Media Hollywood More First Company

When we first started doing bridal, I found the bridal business very archaic; it was very removed from general fashion.

Business Fashion Doing First Started

There are a lot of downsides to being male. We age faster and die younger. But give us this: we're lifetime baby-making machines. Women's reproductive abilities start to wane when they're as young as 35. Men? We're good to go pretty much till we're dead.

Good Women Age Men Start Die

By denying its musical and artistic merit, hip hop's critics get to have it both ways: they can deny the legitimate artistic standing of rap while seizing on its pervasive influence as an art form to prove what a terrible effect it has on youth.

Michael Eric Dyson

Art Youth Influence Prove Critics

Circumstances can be very important. Find the right people to work with.

Work People Find Circumstances Right

My parents were farmers' kids from South Dakota. My dad was an engineer. I wanted to be responsible and major in something pragmatic.

Parents Responsible Farmers Something

To be perfectly honest, I'm competitive.

Honest Competitive Perfectly

I always wanted to win. Everyone has a bit of that in them, but I have even more of a will to win. Sometimes I might go overboard, whereas there are others who, yes, they want to win, but if they don't, it's no big deal for them.

Win Go Sometimes Want Will Others

People in power make the path to power. It means that we will always get the same system, and it's one that is not necessarily in the interest of people's lives.

Power Path People Will Same Always

My advice to organizations I work with is always to be proactive rather than simply reactive when it comes to human rights issues. After all, the important process of improving company policies and practices must be carried out without having to be prompted by a labour strike, factory collapse or other crisis.

Work Process Advice Crisis Important

Too often in Washington we tend to see foreign policy as an abstraction, with little understanding of what we are committing our country to: the complications and consequences of endeavors.

Understanding Consequences Country

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Age Community Man Young Young Man

If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.

Writing Society Lose Way Okay Write

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