Jimmy Wales Quotes
My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.
Quotes to Explore
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Texas is a pretty free state.
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When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
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A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
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My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
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I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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I take my work seriously.
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I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
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People want to get to know you. I don't think America got a chance to know me in that short time.
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I enjoy music wherever it's coming from.
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I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.
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When you have endless time, you take all day to go to the grocery store. But, if you have to be at work for 14 hours a day, you manage your time better. I know I do.
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I have always been the girl who keeps on trying. I try! I try!
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Many people are insecure of many people.
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I can laugh at myself because I've had to. Everything would have been much worse if I'd been the singing son of Nat 'King' Cole.
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I get up early, go to bed late, and sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. And I pray a lot.
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Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
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I see similarities in the sports I played growing up in the sense of how I tackle a role when I get a job. A lot of effort goes in on an individual basis. There is a lot of time spent by yourself working on your craft and what you have to do. But, at the end of the day, you're there to serve the movie just like you would the rugby team.
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I often feel like books find us for reasons, and we read them when we need them the most.
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My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.
