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 think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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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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Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
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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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Since the conception of our country, America has held that parents, not schools, teachers, and certainly not courts, hold the primary responsibility of educating their children.
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The most common mistakes women make when applying makeup are not applying it in the proper light and not using their hands as blending tools.
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I did ballet from the age of five, but what I loved was my gymnastics. I kept the ballet going because of the gymnastics, then found I was going to be too tall.
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I pray every day and think everybody should.
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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.
