Jimmy Wales Quotes

If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.

Jimmy Wales

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• To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Faith
  • Religious
  • Moral

• It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.

  

  Tacitus
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Hate

• I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Time
  • Work
  • Home

• People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it's just opinion. Don't let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Character
  • Opinion

• I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Think
  • Space
  • Kind

• Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Life
  • Everything
  • Filmmaking

• Hospice is such a tremendous thing. Patients seem to reach an inner peace.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Peace
  • Reach
  • Inner Peace

• My grandmother knitted me a crochet top when I was 15. I still fit into it and will never give it away.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Me
  • Grandmother
  • Give

• There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Man
  • Feet
  • Boots

• I believe in operating in the big middle of the electorate and not being to the far right or the far left. I think you get so much more done.

  

  Sam Reed
  • Believe
  • Done
  • Think

• It's always nice when someone comes up to you and tells you they enjoy the show. At least they're not coming up and saying how much they hate it.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Hate
  • Nice

• Now a movie with 30 million returns would be something very incredible and the producer can only get 10 to 15 million. This is only 100 thousands US dollars. This is not enough!

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Movie
  • Enough
  • Now

• Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Power
  • Man
  • Slavery

• They used to call me Cam-bones because I was so skinny.

  

  Cameron Richardson
  • Me
  • Call
  • Skinny

• There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Nature
  • Law
  • Justice

• Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Music
  • Career
  • Myself

• For me, when I grew up playing music, I played music in church and people were shouting and having a big time, and church wasn't something where it was subdued. If you played something, you brought it to church with you.

  

  Randy Owen
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• My records do not require a lot of thought of 'What is this?' and 'What is that?' That would be too contrived for me.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Thought
  • Require
  • Contrived

• It can get pretty hectic in New Orleans whenever I go shopping. So I'll fly to Houston, buy my groceries, and then come back - nobody cares there because I'm not J.J. Watt.

  

  Jimmy Graham
  • Pretty
  • Fly
  • Shopping

• I have a hard time with musicians who act like pricks because it just makes me mad. I just sit there and I go, 'You know what, dude, no matter whether you're in a band just surviving or you're in a bus playing stadiums, one way or another, you're still among the rare breed of people that are actually getting paid to do it.'

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Time
  • Band

• It was designed to have an impact on the stalemate over Mutually Assured Destruction with the Soviet Union. Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn't compete with the U.S., so they revised their agenda. But people have short memories.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • People
  • Memories
  • Moon

• Mia Maz glanced aside in concern at his muffled snort. "Are you all right?" "Yes. Sorry," he whispered. "I'm just having an attack of limericks." Her eyes widened, and she bit her lip; only her deepening dimple betrayed her. "Shhh," she said, with feeling.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Feelings
  • Eye
  • Sorry

• If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.

  

  Jimmy Wales