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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There are plenty of younger people who are a lot more mature than older men and women, and who are such go-getters that they're more successful than people twice their age, they're more ready to date an older partner than you guessed.
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If you were to ask me, 'What the hell does a musician have in common with a restaurant?' I would say a huge amount. It's show time every day, it's a team of people, like, running a circus, which is running a rock-and-roll band.
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There is no greater fault than sensual indulgence. There is no greater misfortune than malcontent. There is no greater calamity than greed.
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People don't realize it's not just about being funny, and they don't know how perceptive a comedian needs to be about human nature. You have to really be able to read a situation and peoples' emotions.
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I can now video chat with my grandkids from any corner of the world, listen to music, or order food and have it delivered to my front door.
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Zero information is preferred to misleading or false information
