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.
Ford Frick -
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 Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
Howard Dean is no longer the brilliant mastermind of the Fifty State Strategy that enabled the Democrats to storm the White House and Congress. He's the idiot wearing an ugly sweatshirt.
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I don't know about you, but I fucked a midget. I have secrets.
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This drawing is three quarters ball, one quarter philosopher, which might be about the right space to keep a philosopher in his place.
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You think of 'Outlaw Josey Wales,' you immediately think of the old Indian guy, Sondra Locke, the old lady with the glasses, beautiful old actress.
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I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.
