Jimmy Wales Quotes
It turns out a lot of people don’t get it. Wikipedia is like rock’n’roll; it’s a cultural shift.Jimmy Wales
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If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.
Baba Kalyani -
I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.
Flavor Flav -
I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
Kate Beckinsale -
Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
Candice Olson -
I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
Dana Schutz -
My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.
Haley Joel Osment
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Layering in different patterns will keep things from appearing too studied.
Nate Berkus -
I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
Randy Quaid -
At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
Dan Colen -
But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
Harriet Martineau -
One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
Ram Charan -
I wear Rick Owens T-shirts to bed. They are like my thermals, since I sleep with the room at near freezing temperatures, like a meat locker.
Vera Wang
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If I did a talk show, this would allow me to speak on what's happening at that moment. I can be current, and I get to flex my stand-up muscle but stay at home without doing the traveling.
Wanda Sykes -
I knew boxing before I knew anything else.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
Adam Hasner -
I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
Oliver Sim The xx -
A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
Karl Kraus -
Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.
J. Courtney Sullivan
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That's life. Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you.
Martin Goldsmith -
In a fragile environment, we need to be aware of ourselves as members of a uniquely powerful species living among other species who are quite as interesting as we are but vulnerable to us because we are cleverer in more destructive ways.
Andrew Motion -
As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the '70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility.
Patti Smith -
Thanksgiving Day, we do a huge lunch. Big family, like, 60 people, we get together. Everybody brings a covered dish, everybody brings a dessert, and we go all out.
Chris Lane -
I just sort of grew up with music always in the background like a soundtrack. And it really hit me hard when The Beatles came along, like so many people. That got me started digging back further to Chuck Berry.
Paul Rodgers Bad Company -
It turns out a lot of people don’t get it. Wikipedia is like rock’n’roll; it’s a cultural shift.
Jimmy Wales