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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I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.
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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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A thinking man's greatest happiness is to have fathomed what can be fathomed and to revere in silence what cannot be fathomed.
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When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.
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Zero information is preferred to misleading or false information
