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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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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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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'Let's Get Harry' was where I met Bob Singer and worked with him for the first time, and then 'Reasonable Doubts' was the second time, and there was a thing after that called 'Charlie Grace' that was the third time. I liked working with Bob. A nice man and a good partner.
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The whole Hollywood thing where people want to put me into this 'quirky-fashionista, daughter of' category makes me mad because it's promoting something that I don't believe in, and it's not who I am.
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You try to pull away the experiences until you get to the core of humanity, and you find that light that exists in everybody. It's that light that I'm searching for in all of my work - is that connective thing, that ether that enters all of us - you know what I mean? That's a part of God.
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I am from the Left, but I am happy to work with people from the Right.
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I don't really live the bohemian life. I come to work in Midtown everyday, along with all the work-a-day folk.
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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.
