Jimmy Wales Quotes

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Jimmy Wales

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• Let me clarify this very definitely. This is not an authoritarian organization.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Organization
  • Definitely
  • Authoritarian

• Don't jump on a man unless he is down.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Man
  • Jump
  • Down

• Cyberpunk was really a reaction against old boy sci-fi which was about white guys in space who would come up with some kind of technological thing.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Up
  • Space
  • Kind

• You know, I'm a curvy woman and I just want to be comfortable with that.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Woman
  • Comfortable
  • Curvy

• Never have anyone else carry your luggage. Pack only what you need.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Never
  • Need
  • Carry

• What has impressed me the most about the Italians whose tables we've sat at is that they are traditional cooks but also outrageously innovative. These people are wild improvisers.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • People
  • WIld
  • Traditional

• I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I'm not based in Monaco... I think my country helped me.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Country
  • Pay
  • Reasons

• There's so much of a desire in the entertainment industry for newness, a desire to build somebody up and then treat them as old news within six months. I think you'd be naive if you didn't try to hold on to your own way of doing things.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Think
  • Desire

• Running in Central Park is my favorite thing to wake up and do. I have my own specific path that I have to run every single time. There's a little bit of OCD involved, but I love it.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Time
  • Love
  • Favorite

• When things don't go our way, we get to choose how we will respond. We get to choose our perspective. Will you focus on what you didn't get, or what you did get?

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Focus
  • Perspective
  • Choose

• The act of writing itself distracts the thoughts, and what is read twice is commonly better remembered than what is transcribed.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Writing
  • Thoughts

• The praising thy mercy. There hath not been here; O supreme Ruler; There hath not been; there will not be, One so good as the Lord. There hath not been born in the day of the people Any one equal to God. And no one will acknowledge Any one equal to him. Above heaven, below heaven, There is no Ruler but he. Above sea, below sea, He created us.

  

  Taliesin
  • People
  • Good
  • God

• One is never satisfied with a portrait of a person that one knows.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• You've got to pick up every stitch. Mmm... must be the season of the witch, Must be the season of the witch.

  

  Donovan
  • Up
  • Witch

• What is my ruling faculty now to me? and of what nature am I now making it? and for what purpose am I now using it? is it void of understanding? is it loosed and rent asunder from social life? is it melted and mixed with the poor flesh so as to move together with it?

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Life
  • Together
  • Nature

• Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! one cannot escape from the facts.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Friend

• Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • People
  • War

• There's gonna' be a lotta slow singin' and flower bringin' if my burglar alarm starts ringin'.

  

  The Notorious B.I.G.
  • Flower

• If people recognize me when I'm out in public, I'm very nice to them. I'm very nice to people even when they don't recognize me. I don't even mind if people come up to me while I'm eating dinner, but if they recognize me while I'm having sex, I refuse to sign autographs.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Public

• People are mostly very nice, and I always say hello. I'm laid back, so I don't mind. I think if people watch the show and want to say hi, you've got to be nice.

  

  Nikki Sanderson
  • People
  • Nice
  • Watch

• The French aren't known for being hilarious. When I told Parisians I was interested in French humor, they'd say 'French what?'

  

  Pamela Druckerman
  • Hilarious

• Movements are not radical. Movements are the American way. A small group of abolitionists writing and speaking eventually led to the end of slavery. A few stirred-up women brought about women's voting. The Populist movement, the Progressive movement, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the women's movement - the examples go on and on of 'little people' getting together and telling the truth about their lives. They made our government act.

  

  Unita Zelma Blackwell
  • Writing
  • War
  • Together

• Your love is all that I was waiting for and now that I feel it ... oh man ... what I thought was not even quarter of what I thought it really was.

  

  Gary Lawyer
  • Love
  • Waiting
  • Feel

• Wikipedia is a non-profit. It was either the dumbest thing I ever did or the smartest thing I ever did.

  

  Jimmy Wales