Jimmy Wales Quotes
Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting.Jimmy Wales
Quotes to Explore
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
Ralph Chaplin -
Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
Jack Benny -
I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
Natalie Cole -
I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
Warren Buffett -
The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
C. V. Raman -
I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
Quentin Tarantino
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
Nathan Bedford Forrest -
I have every single Ferrari that came out. I have all the Mercedes they came out with, all the Jaguars they came out with, all the Porsches they came out with.
Ion Tiriac -
Whenever you're in a relationship, you have that favorite song that reminds you of when you first got together or when you first kissed, and then every time you hear that song, it reminds you of that person.
Olly Murs -
Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy, by Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin Laden, and no one else trying to hurt America.
Van Jones -
I'm an emotional guy.
J. R. Martinez -
Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.
Patrick Lencioni
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Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.
Kat Edmonson -
I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
Carl Sandburg -
Mum is the girliest of them all, but she ended up with me, the tomboy.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.
Dan Brown -
At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.
Magnus Scheving -
A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
Quentin Tarantino
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I do tend to think that I've written a great deal out of my unconscious because half the time I don't know what a given character is going to say next.
Harold Pinter -
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
Jawaharlal Nehru -
The master enjoined not austerity, but moderation. If we truly enjoyed things, he claimed, we would be spontaneously moderate. Asked why he was so opposed to ascetical practices, he replied, 'Because they produce pleasure-haters who always become people-haters - rigid and cruel.'
Anthony de Mello -
Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali -
Now that the Court has declared money to be speech, I say we replace the current Court with some Ben Franklins, Thomas Jeffersons, George Washingtons, a couple of Susan B. Anthony's, Roosevelts, Hamiltons, a Sacajawea or two, and an Abe Lincoln to cover Scalia in full.
Elayne Boosler -
Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting.
Jimmy Wales