Jimmy Wales Quotes
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I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
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I do think that there are people who are able to connect with and empathize with anyone who is going through something difficult, just naturally. I don't think it's a world of effort for everyone.
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Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.
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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
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I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.
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The men and women who occupied the east coast of North America between 1607 and 1800 have been more closely scrutinized than any other collection of people in American history.
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If there are no other wonderful roles that come my way, I have a quite an interesting, dynamic life.
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The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.
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I picked Harvard because it was in a big city, and a lot of girls' schools were nearby. And I liked President Kennedy, who went to Harvard.
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Rebellion is always going to fascinate, as it's always packaged in a very safe way.
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I think about making a comeback every single day. I went running, I went training, did that for a few days. But my body couldn't handle it.
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I try to leave a light footprint. I'm involved with Global Green, which aims to educate people about sustainable building and the greening of schools. I try to be aware about the consumption of unnecessary things in a consumptive culture.
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Here's my goal: I want to make a seriously dark show, and not on a network that has ever done that.
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I've stood up to producers before, and even a director. I saw them being abusive. A lot of people on the set are scared to say stuff when they're not being treated right.
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Well, it's very dangerous to project, but it's clear that the existing technology has some more years to go.
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Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to.
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I've always believed that if you are willing to play your age that you will work, so it's the thing of continuing to play your age and accepting it when you're younger and you suddenly realize, 'Oh, now I'm playing the mom,' 'Oh, I'm playing the grandma.'
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I hold the view that death is rather like changing one's clothes when they are torn and old. It is not an end in itself. Yet death is unpredictable-you do not know when and howT it will take place.
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When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.
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I listen to a lot of old music, like Joni Mitchell and David Bowie.
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True confession time: I never know where a book is going. I get a gut feeling the story is there, then pursue it with the enthusiasm of a hunting tiger on a trail. If I knew where I was going, I'd get bored out of my mind and stop writing.
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You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.
