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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I always like being able to do something I haven't done before.
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Brands, musicians, and public figures were among the first to embrace video on 'Instagram', and we've been impressed with how brands have extended their reach with video ads.
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I hope the next actress offered millions to play the 'fat girl for the day' stops to think about this before she signs the contract - even if just to ask, like any professional actress would in any other situation, 'Why does she weigh 350 pounds? And why me for the part?' If the director can't answer these questions, don't do the movie.
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Networking doesn't have to be all about talking shop over appetizers and bad chardonnay - do it in a way that works for you.
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People think that it is important to learn by assisting the great photographers. I say that is a big mistake. Be happy; just learn from any little guy. Learn how to use the camera - you don't need anything else. You can't be taught the real skill anyway.
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I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.