Jimmy Wales Quotes
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The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.
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I had a pretty bad time when I was an undergraduate at Cornell University. I failed out of school. I was much, much heavier.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.
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I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
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I've always thought Shawn Michaels's story is fascinating.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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Life is too short to be on a diet.
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If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche.
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I certainly never saw myself as posh.
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I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
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I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from an environmental perspective.
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I want to be the top man in our sport. I want to be that guy everyone wants to see skate.
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I'm a basic steak-fish-salad kind of guy.
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A lot of times, it gets weird when some guy is playing your dad. It feels weird to you. It feels like they're forcing sentiment. It's disgusting.
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I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.
