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

• If the reader is rooting for the protagonist, they'll forgive you just about everything else.

  

  Andy Weir

• That's why I've gotten so much experience at my age. You have three teachers next to you every game, and if I'm not playing, I'm watching baseball. You pick up little things here and there.

  

  Adrian Gonzalez
  • Experience
  • Baseball
  • Teachers

• Well, I always run the risk of falling on my face, which has in fact happened.

  

  Marcel Carne
  • Risk

• If President Barack Obama had not been in the White House, we would not have the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today.

  

  Elizabeth Warren
  • Today
  • House
  • Financial

• You always look so cool, like no matter what happens, it’s got nothing to do with you, but you’re not really like that. In your own way, you’re out there fighting as hard as you can, even if other people can’t tell by looking at you.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Fighting
  • Happens
  • Looking

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

  

  Jimmy Wales