Jimmy Wales Quotes
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Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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People are like, 'What's Game of Thrones about?' I'm like, 'It's in the title.' For real, this is a game for the Iron Throne. No matter what character you are, you're sucked into that at some point.
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Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.
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I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever reason, when you can answer all the questions in class. If not for the respect I got from track, cross-country, wrestling and bodybuilding, it would have been a disaster.
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I come from Nigeria, and we live by the idea that it takes a village. So my entire team. I live by my team: my friends, my neighbors, my teachers - they're the people who taught me how to be a free actor.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
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In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.
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George Bush doesn't care about black people.
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Any real Colts fan cannot abide the Denver Broncos and John Elway!
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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The words I overuse are all adverbs.
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I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases 'neutral facial expression' and 'screaming in agony.'
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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
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Why should Scotland be stopped from suggesting to the English people that we join a new union under new terms? Let's not try to dominate one another. Let's be a collection, like being in the pub with a kitty. When we vote in Scotland, we vote one way, but the other country votes another way and we always end up with what they vote for.
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You have got to clean your own house first before you tell other people that they aren't doing it right.
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Stability is the number one thing you need to be successful in anything. I constantly had the rug pulled out from under me. I think people were jealous of me. I think people saw me as this guy who could conquer the world.
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I love the satire and skewering of comedy writing.
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I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, 'You can't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been'. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery.
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Real people are involved, and they can be hurt by your words. We are not tabloid journalism, we are an encyclopedia.
