Jimmy Wales Quotes
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As an actor, you read so many scripts and parts written for Asian-specific characters, and you see a lot of stereotypes and a lot of one-note characters, especially in comedy.
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Most Americans have no memory of the designs Franklin Roosevelt's New Dealers had for postwar-American foreign policy. Human rights, self-determination and an end to European colonization in the developing world, nuclear disarmament, international law, the World Court, the United Nations - these were all ideas of the progressive left.
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Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.
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If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.
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I have always liked to get my pictures taken, and I like taking care of my looks. But, I am not one to use beauty products and treatments.
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Americans are generally decent and fair people with a commitment to sense, but some of us, swept up by our passions, wade too far into a sea of sensibility.
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You never know what the future brings.
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What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.
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In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
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I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.
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I had braces for six years! Kids would call me 'big teeth' or 'rabbit teeth.'
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I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.
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You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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Everybody knows a guillotine choke, and most know how to get to one. But if you can create a different way to get to that choke, then you're going to surprise people. However, that will only happen one time, because once it gets used that one time, everyone will see that and start to train for it.
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I've always loved fashion, but it's not what I set out to do.
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Sometimes it’s important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it
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I'm getting sick and tired of doing anything half-way.
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Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.
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I haven't really given much thought to the whole 'working mother' thing.
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I can never really enjoy being famous.
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We are still in the very beginnings of the Internet.
