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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Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.
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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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Children working in the carpet industry often suffer from many health problems. These include breathing difficulties from inhaling the carpet fibres, arthritis in their fingers from tying the tiny knots, and growth deformities from working hunched over their looms for so long every day.
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I buy very little of what's sold to me in the church. Very, very little.
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Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.
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I'll acknowledge that I'm from Canada but I don't think I'll acknowledge that I'm Canadian.
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What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.
