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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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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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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I'm a good girl, you know? But I'm from the South, and there are some powerful women down there, and very theatrical.
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The biggest risk with a series that goes on this long is that you'll get bored with the character.
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I go to bed every night and the list of what I've accomplished is astounding.
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In general, the public knowledge base and thus decision-making behaviors are far more influenced by advertisement than with current science.
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In fourth grade I had a high school reading level, but I didn't want to go to school and I didn't feel I belonged there.
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I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life.
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I'm not the best auditioner.
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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.
