Jimmy Wales Quotes
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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Do your job; be the best at whatever your job description is.
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My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence.
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I knew my destiny was to be in the winner's circle. There were times along the way where I didn't make it there. But I felt my destiny was definitely to win big titles, win lots of titles.
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The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
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It's not an easy task to match Charan. He is really a good dancer, and he comes straight to the sets without rehearsals.
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I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.
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I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?
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Beyonce is cool, and she can really sing.
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Our sport probably has the best history and tradition of being engaged in international competition.
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And also, I think Japan places great value on the lyrics.
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I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.
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Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
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I knew that all South Indian language films were first made in Chennai and that Tamil Nadu is one of the biggest film-producing centres in the country. I wanted to be part of films here.
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You've got to allow yourself the things you enjoy or you'll just be miserable.
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sub specie aeternitatis
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The ability... to experiment with imaginary situations, gives man a freedom... the pleasure in trying out and exploring imaginary situations. A child's play is concerned with this pleasure; and so is much of art, and much of science... Pure science... is a form of play, in this sense.
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The second class of evils comprises such evils as people cause to each other, when, e.g., some of them use their strength against others. These evils are more numerous than those of the first kind... they likewise originate in ourselves, though the sufferer himself cannot avert them.
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The little dog-eared books in the meeting-house proved poor reading ... So many of them were about unnaturally good children who never did wrong, and unnaturally bad children who never did right. At the end there was always the word MORAL, in big capital letters, as if the readers were supposed to be too blind to find it for themselves, and it had to be put directly across the path for them to stumble over.
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Even in Death they had a thing in common, Pain.
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When people say perhaps it’s cause they’re lying. Either they don’t believe the thing they’re saying, or they do believe it only they don’t want to admit they do.
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The use of threats and intimidation to force energy companies to submit to an extremist agenda may be fitting under a totalitarian regime, but it is never acceptable in the United States.
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Something like 'Psycho,' which is this psychological thing that slowly, slowly, slowly builds, and actually it's a much more powerful reaction you have when it assumes that you're intelligent as you're watching it. I want them to make me believe that whatever's happening could really happen, and then it becomes much more frightening.
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Wikis and social networking are just tools.
