Jimmy Wales Quotes
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I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.
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My dream was to play in good films, no matter in what country. I always waited for a decent script, and nothing has changed. I'm just sure that nothing in life is random, and I believe in the fate which guides you. Probably my starring in 'A Good Day to Die Hard' is good proof of that.
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I know about lots of things that have nothing to do with being Asian, that you would never guess from looking at me. I know all about musical theater. I could go on 'Jeopardy!' and knock off the whole Broadway show tunes category. Also the whole Bible stories category.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation.
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I have no privacy anymore.
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The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.
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If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.
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I want to do that. That's my goal. I want to become a legend.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.
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I grew up watching Salman Khan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who have always juggled fitness with acting. In real life, I'm a fitness freak. Besides, it is nice to look at an actor who is fit, and if you become a role model, that's a perk.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
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I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do.
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Amartya Sen is best known to the general reader for his powerful essays on famine. He is an optimist about some of our gravest economic problems, such as mass starvation in a world that at present can easily produce more food than everyone can eat. Reason and voluntary participation are his watchwords.
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I don't consider myself a fashion designer.
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When people get disillusioned and get insecure and content about the future, they tend to brood about what might have been.
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I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
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It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other.
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EssJay was appointed at the request of and unanimous support of the ArbCom.
