Jimmy Wales Quotes
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I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be the most efficient delivery of both storytelling and jokes.
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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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Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.
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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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Television is a good training ground for aspiring stars. You can experiment and get away, imbibing the positive and viable aspects. Whereas, in cinema, the stakes are high. If something goes wrong, the film falls flat.
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It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.
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It's one of the most basic laws of human nature, isn't it? The more we are denied something, the more we want it. The more silence given to this or that topic, the more power.
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Desperate men are easy to inspire but difficult to reassure.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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Zero information is preferred to misleading or false information
