Jimmy Wales Quotes
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Anyone who's been through divorce will know that every day is really hard.
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I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always been a passion of mine.
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I've got good speed off the edge.
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I want to go to Sierra Leone with something - whether it's some sort of contribution to healthcare, or to the entertainment industry. My cousin is a nurse; we are talking about opening a clinic.
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I think that boy bands as a whole are really coming back.
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We don't wake up happy and looking absolutely perfect and feeling amazing every day, you know? We're only human. So I think, with me, I'm not really scared to let people see that - because it's real.
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My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.
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If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick.
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Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.
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I'm not a dreamer for, you know, 'I want to go to the moon someday.' I accomplished something when I was young, which was much more than I expected to. My results were much bigger than I ever dreamed about it.
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He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
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It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.
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You can sustain visual beauty and innovative visual ideas for a certain length of time, but in a two-hour experience, which is really what movies are, usually audiences - whether they know it or not - most want an emotional connection to character.
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The S.B.A. does not lend directly to businesses, but instead backs loans to encourage banks to invest in small businesses as part of a nearly $90 billion portfolio.
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You can write a radical Norwegian or a conservative Norwegian. And when I changed to a conservative Norwegian, I gained this distance or objectivity in the language. The gap released something in me, and in the writing, which made it possible for the protagonist to think thoughts I had never myself thought.
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You must understand the texture of your hair before you choose a style.
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It's not about earning a paycheck, it's about doing something good that you believe in.
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No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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So many of the optimists in the world don't own a hundred dollars, and because of their optimism, never will.
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Myrnin: ‘Have we been introduced?’ Frank: ‘Probably not. Why, you asking me out, sweetheart?’ Myrnin: ‘You’re not my type, darling.
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I'm not a negative person.
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What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.
