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 simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.
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For 'Rosa Luxemburg,' I read everything by and about her, but the first time I was stuck in that corset, I got an understanding of her that I'd never had before.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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I have tried every diet to lose weight. When you restrict yourself, you're setting yourself up for failure.
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Knowledge is theory. We should be thankful if action of management is based on theory. Knowledge has temporal spread. Information is not knowledge. The world is drowning in information but is slow in acquisition of knowledge. There is no substitute for knowledge.
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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.
