Jimmy Wales Quotes

I think that argument is completely morally bankrupt, and I think people know that when they make it. There's a very big difference between having a sincere, passionate interest in a topic and being a paid shill … Particularly for PR firms, it's something they should really very strongly avoid: ever touching an article.

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• If you try to create something that everybody can relate to, you're gonna make something that nobody can relate to.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • You
  • Try
  • Create

• I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.

  

  Kate Moss
  • You
  • Never
  • Look

• Reverence is fatal to literature.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Literature
  • Reverence
  • Fatal

• Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • Balance
  • Makeup
  • Outfit

• I feel like I am doing a lot, but if someone asks me what exactly I have accomplished, I don't know... putting my son to sleep, feeding him, taking care of things in the house amount to a lot of work. But, yes, I haven't arrested 14 criminals in one day or saved the world or anything of that sort!

  

  Kajol
  • World
  • Work
  • House

• National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Me
  • Suffering
  • Sorrow

• Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with 'what can I give' spirit.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Society
  • Free
  • Fight

• Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

  

  E. B. White
  • People
  • Like
  • Humor

• Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Time
  • Water
  • Cold

• Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Sex
  • Dreams
  • Sexual

• In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.

  

  Hack Wilson
  • Career
  • Player
  • Top

• Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is.

  

  Vince Cable
  • World
  • Political
  • Government

• No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Daily
  • Memory
  • Journalism

• When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just as you look at a Michael Jordan to be the terrific athlete he is.

  

  Walter Payton
  • Kids
  • Model
  • Speak

• When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was in a boarding school and the nuns gave me poems to remember to try and get the memory going again.

  

  C. C. H. Pounder
  • School
  • Remember
  • Problems

• I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Good
  • Work
  • Moving

• The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.

  

  Karl Lehmann
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• People used to ask me how I got my jollies, and I guess I'm happy when what I'm doing is helping people and unhappy when what I'm doing isn't helping people.

  

  Chuck Feeney
  • People
  • Happy

• People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Giving
  • Generosity

• When you start to meet with ordinary people you understand that a Russian person, really any person from Russia, a Tatar, a Mordvin, a Chechen, a Dagestani, they are very open people, even a little naive. But there's one defining trait that probably all peoples have, although it comes out especially strongly in us. That's a drive toward fairness. It's one of the dominating, I think, traits in the mentality of a person from Russia, a Russian person.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Fairness

• I think the National Football League needs a new union. The heavyweights of this union are not heavyweights enough.

  

  Jim Brown
  • Football

• I obviously have a knack for getting on paper what a lot of people have thought and didn't realize they thought. And they say, 'Hey, yeah!' And they like that.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Realizing
  • Paper

• I think that argument is completely morally bankrupt, and I think people know that when they make it. There's a very big difference between having a sincere, passionate interest in a topic and being a paid shill … Particularly for PR firms, it's something they should really very strongly avoid: ever touching an article.

  

  Jimmy Wales
  • People