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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My hobbies include maintaining my physical and mental health. It's a full-time job. Yoga definitely helps for both of them. I'm a big fan of relaxing and not having a schedule. That's my best way to keep from going crazy.
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I had to quit a 'real job' to start my first company.
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I've just always been interested in alter-naturalism and seeing if you can make real life interesting enough to be dramatic without enhancing it. Like, could you make a movie or write a play in which there's no compression of time, there's no enhanced event, it's just real life?
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A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push it.
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I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school.
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My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.
