Jimmy Wales Quotes
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
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Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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The Zionist movement gave political expression to our claim to the land of Israel. And in 1922, the League of Nations recognized the justice of this claim.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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I know what poverty is.
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I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
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I'm not looking to be a trophy. When not acting, I spend my time studying metaphysics and quantum mechanics to keep my life as grounded as I can.
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In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.
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I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.
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I won't be making any friends in the corporate suites.
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Everybody wants to identify things about a poet or about a playwright. They want to codify something or put it in terms that can be understood. We want to understand something, because that's how our minds work. We like to understand things, and it's discomfiting if we don't understand things.
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We can all get complacent. Especially when it comes to a job.
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I'd had to grow up pretty quickly, and going back to drama school gave me a chance to be with people my own age and do normal things, like going to a pub on a Friday night and just hanging out.
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In principle. what is done is to take the nucleus out of a cell with a very fine micro-pipette or needle and introduce it into an egg. That had been done with amphibians a long time ago, and then there was a long pause of many years before people were clever enough to make that work in the sheep.
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People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.
