Jimmy Wales Quotes
If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it is send it to Wikileaks.
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
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We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
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When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?
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So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
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What we want the folks in Ethiopia to know is that we are behind them in the democratic process. We know it is not perfect, as we are still working on ours; but we wish them success in this great and noble endeavor.
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I own nothing; I just stay with friends all over the country.
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Anyone can look beautiful.
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If the media isn't slanted toward the Left, why is everyone so worried about my affiliation with Glenn Beck but not with Alec Baldwin?
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People think that, when you're doing comedy, nothing means anything, that people run around and act crazy. It's quite the opposite. The stakes are life-and-death.
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Actors need to learn when their character is front and center and when it's more in the background.
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You just couldn't be in George Romney's presence without some of his goodness and integrity wearing off on you.
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For me, fashion means dare. I don't mind wearing a bikini. I am okay with it.
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I am sort of an adventurer. I like to explore new places. I don't get to travel as often as I would like but I love it.
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Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
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I am, of course, aware that the ultimate solution is the ownership and control of the means of life by the whole of the people; but we are not at that stage of development as yet.
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There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African understanding is far more restorative - not so much to punish as to redress or restore a balance that has been knocked askew.
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The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.
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If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it is send it to Wikileaks.
