Jimmy Wales Quotes
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I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.
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I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!
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Society becomes how we behave.
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Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
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I'm going to fight to the death for a public option.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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I read whatever is put in front of me. I gobble up books.
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It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.
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Don't Cry Daddy is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word.
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A source of conflict for women everywhere is the pull between reproduction and production. Women worldwide have difficulty in balancing their dual roles as caregivers and providers.
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At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.
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I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.
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My tomb shall bless and speak to the needs of my devotees.
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When people see the Cubevision logo, they should know it's something good, something worth checking out.
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I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture.
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The drummer is stereotypically the dumb guy. Maybe that's why I always respect drummers who do more than drum.
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Jasmine apologized and said she was sorry and said she loved me, she couldn't believe it and said she thought it would be her. All of them were really, really sorry that it happened to me.
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It seems that boredom is one of the greatest discoveries of our time. If so, there's no question but that he must be considered a pioneer.
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I think we live in an era without a predictable career path. Everybody's doing more, doing more at the same time, doing more faster. As such, individual projects can have wildly different developmental trajectories.
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I just grill chicken and make very simple cuisine.
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I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to 'truthiness.'
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If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by the dreary dictates of materialism and secularity, then the raw spirit truth of our native land is alive and radiant by comparison. For joy and meaning we might well turn to our natural country and witness miracles of vitality and new life, of inspiration and profound beauty; all in some humble, quiet and improbable place.
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Zero information is preferred to misleading or false information
