Jimmy Wales Quotes
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Justice is revenge.
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If you want to change things, it requires bravery.
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One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.
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I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.
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I trust no one - that microphone, that book.
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I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.
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I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me.
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
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How friendly all men would be one with another, if no regard were paid to honour and money! I believe it would be a remedy for everything.
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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
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I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
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Certainly, grades only matter so much when you're in Hollywood. But I became an utterly motivated, devoted, committed student. I was a good student because I was convinced that it would somehow help me in my quest to become a filmmaker.
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I'm certainly relishing the idea of living a century. Can you imagine that? What an achievement.
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I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.
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Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much.
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Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life.
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Some people really like to have an open car that lets them see everything. Of course, others want the squinty, protected feeling of something like the Chrysler 300.
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One Direction have to do their own ironing you don't see Take That doing their own ironing!
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The feeling of insecurity is inimical to our sense of wellbeing, as it causes anxiety and stress, which harms our physical and mental health. It is no surprise then that, according to some surveys, workers across the world value job security more highly than wages.
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The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.
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I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.
