Jimmy Wales Quotes
The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up.
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I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.
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The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
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I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
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But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
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The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned.
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50 Cent's a songwriter. He understood and liked my music, but he didn't understand me.
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My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.
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The majority of Afghans do not see the Americans as foreign occupiers who must be defeated. Instead, they are hungry for the Americans to step up and help them make their country safer, their government cleaner and their economy stronger. They are disappointed because the international community has done too little, not too much.
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I find that all great directors, and I would include Ben Affleck and Clint Eastwood in that, they have great confidence. And with great confidence comes great freedom for the actor.
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The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up.
