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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I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.
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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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Boy, I'll tell you, when the Rams drafted me No. 1, it surprised me. I was walking on air for days.
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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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I've ended up becoming my mother in some respects, despite my eight years of analysis!
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I have always thought of myself as an inventor first and foremost. An engineer. An entrepreneur. In that order. I never thought of myself as an employee. But my first jobs as an adult were as an employee: at IBM, and then at my first start-up.
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I believe we should extend our care and concern to all living creatures with whom we share this planet. … Animals give me a window into a world that is different from our own, but every bit as meaningful. … I can’t imagine what life would be like without animals. They bring me happiness and a sense of calm and peace.
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Some musicians like to decorate their walls with discs saying: '1 million records sold in America.' I prefer to put up discs marking sales in lesser-known countries.
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As no two people see the world the same way, all trips from here to there are imaginary; all truth is a tale I am telling myself.
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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.
