Jimmy Wales Quotes
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with 'Shooting Fish.' Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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I think every business, really, has a unique reason for being, unique assets, unique attributes, a unique history. And that can be turned into a very attractive design story, essentially, that consumers can relate to.
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We have no chance to comprehend what goes on there - it's so dramatic, and people are so poor. We all felt bad about being there. Filming in India felt like we were going to borrow something knowing that we were never going to give it back.
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Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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The only people who usually have input on my writing are my wife and my editor. I'm not in conversation with anyone except the people I report on and the people I work with.
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Not only are a voteless people a hopeless people. A non-producing people are hopeless also.
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I love Christopher Bailey and Burberry, Mulberry for bags, and Hudson for jeans.
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I always love China, especially the old China.
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I'm honored to have been chosen as a fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. I am hugely appreciative for the support I have had throughout my life, and I look forward to using the grant to help institutions that have fed my soul and to support new work that inspires me.
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I held the generous, strong, beautiful hand of my first wife Cassie as ovarian cancer took her life much too soon.
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Only do it if I can test her personally. That will not be something I enjoy doing either.
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Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.
