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 sound of a golf game is very different than the sound of a football game.
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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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I feel like I was blacklisted in 1965.
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Oh tell me where the answer lies,Is it in the notebook behind your eyes?
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I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.
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As a producer, the most important call you can get is on Saturday morning, when the Friday-night grosses come in. As a director, you want your film to be successful. But your outlook is a bit different. You become very conscious of the reviews.
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The only time I felt a little too exposed was for a week then I started life-streaming for a couple of hours a day on Qik and Ustream. It became very much like the film 'We Live in Public.'
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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.
