Jimmy Wales Quotes
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Let me clarify this very definitely. This is not an authoritarian organization.
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Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
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Cyberpunk was really a reaction against old boy sci-fi which was about white guys in space who would come up with some kind of technological thing.
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Never have anyone else carry your luggage. Pack only what you need.
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I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I'm not based in Monaco... I think my country helped me.
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There's so much of a desire in the entertainment industry for newness, a desire to build somebody up and then treat them as old news within six months. I think you'd be naive if you didn't try to hold on to your own way of doing things.
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Running in Central Park is my favorite thing to wake up and do. I have my own specific path that I have to run every single time. There's a little bit of OCD involved, but I love it.
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When things don't go our way, we get to choose how we will respond. We get to choose our perspective. Will you focus on what you didn't get, or what you did get?
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The praising thy mercy. There hath not been here; O supreme Ruler; There hath not been; there will not be, One so good as the Lord. There hath not been born in the day of the people Any one equal to God. And no one will acknowledge Any one equal to him. Above heaven, below heaven, There is no Ruler but he. Above sea, below sea, He created us.
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One is never satisfied with a portrait of a person that one knows.
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You've got to pick up every stitch. Mmm... must be the season of the witch, Must be the season of the witch.
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What is my ruling faculty now to me? and of what nature am I now making it? and for what purpose am I now using it? is it void of understanding? is it loosed and rent asunder from social life? is it melted and mixed with the poor flesh so as to move together with it?
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Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! one cannot escape from the facts.
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Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.
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There's gonna' be a lotta slow singin' and flower bringin' if my burglar alarm starts ringin'.
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The armored cars of dreams contrived to let us doso many a dangerous thing.
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'There’s a catch,' Skellsgard said.'Another one? But of course there is. You know, I’m thinking I should start a collection.'
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People should only profit to the extent they make other peoples lives better.
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Let's face it; people are doing everything online these days. So if they are going to watch my movies, I'm happy as long as it's being bought legally and being exhibited legally, as long as they are paying even a small fee for it. I'm just anti-piracy. If it's a legitimate way of watching film online, then I'm very happy.
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We're both damaged property, I guess.Plenty of time for renovation.
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I weep for Adonais - he is dead! O, weep for Adonais! though our tears Thaw not the frost which binds so dear a head!
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I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.
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We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.
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Wikipedia is a non-profit. It was either the dumbest thing I ever did or the smartest thing I ever did.
