Jimmy Wales Quotes
The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.
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It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.
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But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I don't think much about whether fans will remember me.
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The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.
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Singers are definitely getting their due in Bollywood. I feel that music composers, on the other hand, tend to lose out on the popularity, fame, and success that singers usually enjoy.
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I don't see any reason to discriminate against homosexuals.
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Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will be seduced by his first contact with a culture that does.
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The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way.
