Jimmy Wales Quotes
There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.
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The big thing that Moneypenny changed was the amount of charity work that I was able to be involved with.
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Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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I think she has more gospel style than I do. I think I'm more, umm, you know mainstream I guess. I don't know if we split the vote. That could be possible but I don't think we are the same at all.
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Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.
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What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh.
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I'm sure there are some commercial applications for Twitter, but they don't really interest me. I mean, 140 characters? I am really not interested in Ashton Kutcher's daily walks. Not for me.
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I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.
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I believe that we should be able to marry whom ever we choose. As long as both people are willing... I say go for it!
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An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
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Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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I'm just not very funny.
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The restaurant business had a profound effect on my future and that of my two brothers. When we were able to stand on a stool to reach the sink, we washed dishes, and later, when we could see over the counter, we waited tables and managed the cash register.
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I really enjoy watching TV; it offers an amazing window, and its an incredible way of presenting history to young people in particular.
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My favorite film of all time is 'Raising Arizona.' I watched it again as soon as it was over. I had it on VHS, rented it, and I watched it and said, 'I want to watch that again, right now.' I think I did the same with something like 'Goodfellas,' which is a completely different genre.
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People don't always do what they say they're going to do.
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I feel like I'm creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion.
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I have a theory that women are generally given space and appointed to jobs when the situation is tough. I've observed that in many instances. In times of crisis, women eventually are called upon to sort out the mess, face the difficult issues and be completely focused on restoring the situation.
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I lived in a kind of dream of communism.
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One thing Tolkien does incredibly well - and this is from a lay person's point of view; I am not scholar or anything - is that you don't have to make an effort to envisage the worlds that he writes about.
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All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle.
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There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.
