Jimmy Wales Quotes
Given enough time humans will screw up Wikipedia just as they have screwed up everything else, but so far it's not too bad.
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
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I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.
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There's plenty of people who've never gotten the opportunity to wrestle at WrestleMania. To perform there and do that, I never thought it would ever happen. I had learned to live with it. So to say I did, that is a big notch in my belt.
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One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
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'Power' is a funny thing. Maybe it's a show that draws people in because they are watching people do things they secretly wish they could do or know they could get away with.
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You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.
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Yeah, I am lazy. There's no doubt about that.
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I want to do 'The Graduate!' When Lorraine Bracco's finished, I'm up for it.
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People really don't understand what actors do.
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I want to reach a wide variety of people.
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The single biggest difference between financial success and financial failure is how well you manage your money. It's simple: to master money, you must manage money.
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Given enough time humans will screw up Wikipedia just as they have screwed up everything else, but so far it's not too bad.
