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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The thing that makes me happiest about Simpsons Illustrated are all the drawings that we get from readers. I wish we could print them all. They're really imaginative. They show a lot of hard work.
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I love going to London for a couple of days but I need to be in the country. I like the silence, the smell and the seasonal changes, especially in spring and summer. I really feel that I belong there.
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It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
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Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.
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I have clients from 19 to 80 years old, and the way I work means that they can take the same dress and shorten, lengthen it, remove the sleeve, adjust details - and make it their own. They get a piece that is right for them. It's a clever way of shopping in this economy.
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We are still in the very beginnings of the Internet.
