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 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

• The armored cars of dreams contrived to let us doso many a dangerous thing.

  

  Elizabeth Bishop

• Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won't want.

  

  Anthony Hope
  • Should
  • Economy
  • Cases

• It should be said that we are presently, and I believe unfairly, constrained from directly promoting cigarettes to the youth market...Realistically, if our Company is to survive and prosper, over the long term, we must get our share of the youth market. In my opinion, this will require new brands tailored to the youth market.

  

  R. J. Reynolds
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Opinion

• I always try to be very human in my performances and hang out with my fans. It is cool to be a celebrity, but at the end of the day I want to empower my audience and say, 'Hey, I am just like you.'

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Day
  • Cool
  • End

• I love comedians. They're my community.

  

  Louis C. K.
  • Community

• For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources.

  

  Michael Rostovtzeff
  • Independent
  • Importance
  • Historical

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

  

  Jimmy Wales