Jimmy Wales Quotes
To me the key thing is getting it right. And if a person's really smart and they're doing fantastic work, I don't care if they're a high school kid or a Harvard professor; it's the work that matters.
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I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.
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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.
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A marciful Providunce fashioned us hollerO' purpose thet we might our principles swaller.
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you.
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To me the key thing is getting it right. And if a person's really smart and they're doing fantastic work, I don't care if they're a high school kid or a Harvard professor; it's the work that matters.
