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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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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If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
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I don't feel that electronic music has to stand on the back of urban artists or anyone else to be recognized. It's great music.
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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
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Sometimes, the best thing to do is just to sit down and listen to another person's experience and listen how they express themselves and want to be seen by others.
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Obviously, I've been very lucky in general in my career, but I feel that I've been very lucky in terms of having directors come along at the right times who have taken me to the next level of where I needed to be.
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I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak.
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The way I look at it is, when you allow people to submerge themselves into a story, they will react by thinking through what it's about. That's just so much more fun and effective, I think, than a lecture.
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People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.
