Jimmy Wales Quotes
I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
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I like walking in Golden Gate Park.
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.
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A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time.
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I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.
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As proud and capable as it is, I think the idea that the military can build new countries is a tall order, and it's the sort of thing that we would only expect from a military that we have superresourced and thought of as supercapable.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
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I love iTunes as much as anybody. It's very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you get when you walk into a record store. And I think a lot of people are still thrilled to spend a half hour there and go through the bins and make some purchases.
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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
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The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.
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In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.
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One thing I learn - I've been in practice now for half a century or more, and the most important ingredient for an architect to do a good building is to have a good client. I think a client counts for as much as fifty per cent.
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It was all recorded and mixed and there's more continuity in it more direction.
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I'm a great believer in possibilities.
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Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young people.
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It was the first airplane . . . that could make money just by hauling passengers.
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Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.”[245] Now in the Hebrew, not the present, but the future of the verb “to be” is used; and from the future the name Jehovah is derived. But the Hebrew future has a peculiar signification: it is often used to express a permanent state, that which exists and always will exist. Hence the words rendered “I AM THAT I AM” might be more intelligently translated “I EVER SHALL BE THAT WHICH I AM.” And thus “Jehovah” signifies the immutable God, the Same yesterday, to-day, and for ever.
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I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.
