Jimmy Wales Quotes
Wikipedia is like a sausage: you might like the taste of it, but you don't necessarily want to see how it's made.

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To win a major championship - I think, at the end of the day, that's what a golfer's career is based upon.
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I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.
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Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent.
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You are never really prepared for criticism.
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.
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Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight.
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If you go through any culture that has had wars, go to the bomb shelters, and you'll hear some amazing stories. Yes, it's a necessary thing that we actually both distract ourselves and it's a way to bond.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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Pacifism as a mass movement aims to avoid suffering; pacifists often say that no cause is worth suffering or dying for. The ethos of Solidarity is based on an opposite premise - that there are causes worth suffering and dying for.
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It was the era of Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson; they all had a certain look.
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Mentally speaking, it sucks, man. Who wants to prepare their whole life and have it all taken away by some guy who just made a bad pass? But that's the beauty of the sport as well. Anything can happen.
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More or less, we're all afflicted with the psychology of the voyeur. Not in a strictly clinical or criminal sense, but in our whole physical and emotional stance before the world. Whenever we seek to break this spell of passivity, our actions are cruel and awkward and generally obscene, like an invalid who has forgotten to walk.
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Τελεῖται δ' ἐς τὸ πεπρωμένον·οὔθ' ὑποκαίων οὔτ' ἐπιλείβωνοὔτε δακρύων ἀπύρων ἱερῶνὀργὰς ἀτενεῖς παραθέλξει.
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He was always before men’s eyes; a course of action which, by increasing our familiarity with great men, diminishes our respect for them.
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What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instincts of beasts.
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My accent depends on whom I'm around.
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Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
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If one knows exactly what is going to be done, why do it?
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We'd go through the whole story again, ... but when we got to that part, he kept saying, 'I don't remember.'
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Wikipedia is like a sausage: you might like the taste of it, but you don't necessarily want to see how it's made.