Jeffrey Skoll Quotes

I went from living in a house with five guys in Palo Alto, and living off their leftovers, to all of a sudden having all kinds of resources. And I wanted to figure out how I could take the blessing of these resources and share it with the world.

Jeffrey Skoll

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BlessingWorldHouseLivingOutOff

Part of me wonders what it would have been like to have had my first experience of India in a normal way, rather than through the eyes of a film.

Joel Edgerton

EyesExperienceMeIndiaWayFirst

We did not do a good enough job of taking care of the people who were losing their careers and retraining them into the new economy.

John Hickenlooper

GoodJobLosingPeopleCareEnough

When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting - the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness - or into waves of probability.

Robert Lanza

AnimalKitchenWavesYouChicken

Families, when they get a housing voucher, they move a lot less. They move into better neighborhoods. Their kids go to the same school more consistently. Their kids have more food, and they get stronger. There are massive returns.

Matthew Desmond

FoodSchoolBetterStrongerGoMore

I think festivals have a responsibility to show different genres of music to people.

Sigrid

MusicResponsibilityPeopleThink

I can't comment on what every single presidential candidate is saying or doing.

Tom Cotton

SayingDoingSingleCommentEvery

I found that through my life, living in the city of Toronto, I look above the Pizza Pizza sign, and I look above the other signs and window dressing, and I see evidence of a city that no longer exists in the keystones and the decorations that line the tops of buildings. That presence of the old city has always moved me.

Michael Redhill

LifePizzaCityMeWindowMy Life

The jokes I used to do on 'Sex and the City' were always comic character things, and they were rarely hard jokes. As soon as you go up in front of people, it demands laughter.

Michael Patrick King

CharacterLaughterPeopleCityYou

I love making records, and part of really doing that and being happy about it is just that each time I've done something, I come to terms with what maybe is wrong with it, and then I move on to the next thing.

Lou Barlow

LoveTimeHappyDoingBeing Happy

I went to jail at 17. While I was there, I discovered that I could write. Once I started making some songs, other inmates wanted to know a little bit more about what I was doing, and they asked me to rap for them. They really liked it, and I made it a goal to come out and try to make something out of the music.

Jay IDK

MusicMeDoingGoalKnowJail

I'm a family guy. I want to be home with my family, want to spend as much time with my family as I can.

Donald Driver

FamilyHomeTimeI CanWantGuy

To pay 60 musicians for rehearsal and performance is quite something, and I decided I wouldn't be able to handle that kind of situation financially again, unless somebody else was taking care of that end of it.

Chuck Mangione

PerformanceCareEndMusiciansKind

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