Jimmy Wales Quotes
It just didn't occur to me, sitting at my computer, that I would end up travelling all over the world.
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It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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I don't want to build any image for myself. I don't want people to say, 'He does only a certain type of role.' I don't want only to be the hero of the story. An actor's weakness is the different roles that he can't do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.
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No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
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The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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Dance is something which I like to do, but acting is my passion. I would like to do good and meaty roles.
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Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
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I didn't want to do something typical.
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My parents worked in the art world. They were really supportive of my music in that they allowed me to drop out of school and move out of our home, which not many parents would do.
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I think humor can be an effective way of getting the point across, but there are definitely times where I just write very earnestly.
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I just developed my act way back in the late '80s. I went to college in Georgia, so I picked up the Southern accent. I talked like that with my friends all the time, because it was fun. It was funny... All my friends were real Southern. We're buddies, so I'd say stuff to make them laugh. So that was pretty much it.
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I think of myself as a fairly attractive girl and always have, thanks to my mom. I was brought into this world thinking I was gorgeous because my mother was extremely devoted to this notion.
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I kind of crave loneliness.
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As an entrepreneur and public company CEO, I've dealt with dozens of rollouts, and when unveiling a new product, the operating approach should be, 'Hope for the best but prepare for the worst.'
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It just didn't occur to me, sitting at my computer, that I would end up travelling all over the world.
