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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When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything.
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It's all to make people aware of violence and safety in the evenings, and the different things that go on in their community how to avoid feeling.
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I always try to go where the excitement is, where the best music is. I don't care what kind of music it is. I go with the best artist we can find.
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Attitudes are the real figures of speech.
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There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.
