Jimmy Wales Quotes

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Jimmy Wales

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• To win a major championship - I think, at the end of the day, that's what a golfer's career is based upon.

  

  Adam Derek Scott
  • Career
  • Day
  • End

• I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.

  

  Larry King
  • You
  • Better
  • Brooklyn

• Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Broken
  • Stand
  • Would

• I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Said
  • Security
  • Illusion

• I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• You are never really prepared for criticism.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • You
  • Criticism
  • Prepared

• Different astronauts sleep in different ways.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Different
  • Sleep
  • Astronauts

• People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.

  

  Major Owens
  • People
  • Change
  • Result

• Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Up
  • Men
  • Thinking

• If you go through any culture that has had wars, go to the bomb shelters, and you'll hear some amazing stories. Yes, it's a necessary thing that we actually both distract ourselves and it's a way to bond.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Culture
  • Amazing
  • Bond

• There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Children
  • America
  • Idiots

• Pacifism as a mass movement aims to avoid suffering; pacifists often say that no cause is worth suffering or dying for. The ethos of Solidarity is based on an opposite premise - that there are causes worth suffering and dying for.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Suffering
  • Dying
  • Movement

• It was the era of Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson; they all had a certain look.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Rock
  • Look
  • Hunter

• Mentally speaking, it sucks, man. Who wants to prepare their whole life and have it all taken away by some guy who just made a bad pass? But that's the beauty of the sport as well. Anything can happen.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Guy

• More or less, we're all afflicted with the psychology of the voyeur. Not in a strictly clinical or criminal sense, but in our whole physical and emotional stance before the world. Whenever we seek to break this spell of passivity, our actions are cruel and awkward and generally obscene, like an invalid who has forgotten to walk.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • World
  • Emotional
  • Psychology

• No one is 'the next' anyone, especially if that person is still here, doing their thing, as she Mariah clearly is. The comparisons people have made to me are so flattering, but I think it's insensitive to the people I'm compared to.

  

  Leona Lewis
  • People
  • She

• Τελεῖται δ' ἐς τὸ πεπρωμένον·οὔθ' ὑποκαίων οὔτ' ἐπιλείβωνοὔτε δακρύων ἀπύρων ἱερῶνὀργὰς ἀτενεῖς παραθέλξει.

  

  Aeschylus

• He was always before men’s eyes; a course of action which, by increasing our familiarity with great men, diminishes our respect for them.

  

  Livy
  • Great
  • Men
  • Respect

• On most holidays, you'll find me in Mexico. Actually, on most holidays you won't find me. I'm at a beach, and it's wonderful.

  

  Kyrsten Sinema
  • Beach

• I feel that I have fulfilled the part of my duty that tied me to the Cuban revolution in its territory, and I say farewell to you, to the comrades, to your people, who now are mine.

  

  Che Guevara
  • People
  • Revolution
  • Farewell

• If we follow the traditional way of thought, there will always be traditional enemies. Extremist circles from both sides will find causes to give rise to problems.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Thought
  • Find
  • Problems

• Our intent will not be to create gridlock. Oh, except maybe from time to time.

  

  Bob Dole
  • Time

• There is only one reason for that change, and it is to punish people.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • People
  • Change
  • Reason

• Wikipedia is like a sausage: you might like the taste of it, but you don't necessarily want to see how it's made.

  

  Jimmy Wales