Jimmy Wales Quotes
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.
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I just write mechanical things.
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I do not like carving the world into segments; we are one world.
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Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.
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Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.
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A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.
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What I'm trying to do, and my policy, is to disassociate, to shy away from what's going on in Syria.
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I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.
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War implies a lack of comprehension of mutual national interests; it means the undermining and even the end of culture.
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The question of what it is to live an 'authentic life', that's a complicated one.
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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
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Hungary has a moral debt to the Jews that it helped send to death camps thirty years after the First World War.
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I truly would love to be a designer-label girl, but I am very much High Street.
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The votes of 60,000 Floridians were not counted. The Court threw out all 60,00 votes. And that's what the newspapers around the country are counting now.
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Oh man, I would definitely love to work with Kanye on something. But it really is all up to him, so whatever he wants to do, I'm with it.
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.. I reprobate the mechanically systematic approach of drawing.. ..so generally diffused. I think it can produce nothing but manner and sameness.
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When we read what Goethe says about men we are ashamed of what we have said; when we read what he says about painting and statues we are ashamed of what Goethe has said.
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The time the moon is going back, the blood that is in a person does be weakening, but when the moon is strong, the blood that moves strong in the same way. And it to be at the full, it drags the wits along with it, the same as it drags the tide.
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It took me a long time to adjust and narrow down my life. I made my shift to the mind-set … there's time for my daughter outside work and that's all. This is my new life. This is not drudgery. This is fun.
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It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.
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Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult-once we truly understand and accept it-then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.
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Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming thus at something else, they find happiness by the way.
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I regard it as a pseudonym and I don’t really have a problem with it.
