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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I could go to London in 2012. I will only be 37.
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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 lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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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 would say there's about 10 people who know that, that my car was called 'Old Sock.'
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I have a deep love for life and my fellow human beings. I try to understand everything that everybody does, even if it seems wrong to me.
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What's great is what Coach Popovich and R.C. Buford and the whole family have done a great job in continuing to build the franchise and still be very, very competitive.
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I'm not sure we're presenting ourselves as real role models. I don't think literature has ever been a real place for role models.
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Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
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My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.
