Jimmy Wales Quotes

I don't come down on any simple place as a deletionist or a completionist.

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• But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Sky
  • Grandma
  • Woods

• A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Work
  • Done
  • Vision

• If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.

  

  Jack Herer
  • Life
  • Alcohol
  • Marijuana

• Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Know
  • Sweet
  • Argument

• This election could come down to just a handful of votes. It could come down to just one vote.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • Down
  • Vote
  • Election

• My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life.

  

  Immanuel Velikovsky
  • Life
  • World
  • Father

• 'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Work
  • Past
  • Present

• I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Wish
  • Best
  • Organization

• Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability - the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy - to uncover our true abilities and how we can put them to work for us in ways we may have never imagined.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Work
  • May
  • True

• I quite like being who I am.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • Like

• I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Myself
  • Dance
  • Fitness

• We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Country
  • Want
  • Change

• I was about to give up acting when I got the call about being short-listed for 'Dangal.'

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Up
  • Acting
  • Give

• We recorded our first CD, Sixteen Stone, with a small budget and never dreamed that we would enjoy such a high success. It was simply fantastic.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • High
  • Success
  • Small

• You rewind. You think of your preparation. You think of everything you did throughout the week, your life, the practices, the intensity. Everything flashes, and you come right back to that point. And it's like, game on.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Life
  • Game
  • Week

• I try not to do bad, but sometimes it's irresistible.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Bad
  • Sometimes
  • Try

• Everybody loves vampire stories, and if there's one show in particular that's done really well, it just opens the door and the opportunity for more of those kind of stories to get through.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Done
  • Opportunity
  • Kind

• Our intent is to operate Time Warner as it operates today, with autonomy in its divisions, including the world-class creative talent and journalists that make Time Warner a leader in entertainment and news.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • Time
  • World
  • Today

• Good scripts have always been, I think, hard to find. Good storytelling, good writing - it's just not easy. I have made it a point that - if I'm going to put the energy into doing this work - I will wait until I find something I'm really happy with.

  

  Chris Cooper
  • Good
  • Work
  • Writing

• Dealing with political things, it's not for me. It makes me crazy. I want to buy, you want to sell. Please make it simple.

  

  Pier Luigi Loro Piana
  • Political
  • Simple
  • Crazy

• When I was a younger actor, I was pretty much solely motivated by validation. I just wanted to be told I was good and handsome and a part of the gang. It was pretty simple animal-social stuff. I don't care as much about those things anymore.

  

  Chris Pine
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Simple

• There was no getting around the stubborn fact that taking sweetmeats was only 'hooking,' while taking bacon and hams and such valuables was plain simple stealing - and there was a command against that in the Bible. So they inwardly resolved that so long as they remained in the business, their piracies should not again be sullied with the crime of stealing.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Long
  • Business
  • Simple

• I'm not a superstar, per se... but I'm a musical creator - a producer in the same vein as what Quincy Jones was, or Pharrell and Timbaland were.

  

  Diplo

• I don't come down on any simple place as a deletionist or a completionist.

  

  Jimmy Wales
  • Simple