Jimmy Wales Quotes

The mainland Chinese tend to take a Chinese mainland point of view on controversial issues, and the Taiwanese take another the Taiwanese viewpoint.

Jimmy Wales

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• I felt pressure to follow in Madonna's footsteps, and I didn't want to base my career on sex. So I began to change how I saw myself.

  

  La India
  • Career
  • Change
  • Myself

• Being Human clothing was first launched in France, Belgium and Spain, where the brand's philosophy of look good, do good is connecting with people and not just Salman Khan.

  

  Salman Khan
  • People
  • Good
  • Philosophy

• I must never write when I do not want to write.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Want
  • Never
  • Write

• I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Because
  • Keep
  • Annoying

• It doesn't matter if you don't have a complete set of anything because repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • You
  • Matter
  • Repetition

• For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Small
  • Lose
  • Aim

• I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.

  

  R. Kelly
  • History
  • Day
  • Chicago

• I never forgot being poor, and I never stopped thinking how fortunate I am.

  

  Larry King
  • Thinking
  • Poor
  • Fortunate

• Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Good
  • End
  • Matter

• When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.

  

  Irwin M. Jacobs
  • Important
  • Ideas
  • New

• When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.

  

  Barry White
  • Heart
  • Know
  • Hand

• I'm a liberal, but I think there's so much that the private sector can do and does do.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Liberal

• In the summer of 1902, I was able to erect two experimental stations on two forts at Strasbourg for the purpose of closer study.

  

  Karl Ferdinand Braun
  • Purpose
  • Study
  • Summer

• I don't separate things out between what's personal and what's my work. My passion is personal.

  

  Maiwenn
  • Work
  • Passion
  • Personal

• I think that's a great opportunity, to pick a script where you can build up a good skill. I think the main thing I look for when I look at scripts is if it's inspirational. If it's something that teenagers can relate to. And is it something that the audience is going to get something out of. If not, then it's really not worth doing.

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Me
  • Need
  • Fulfillment

• If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • World
  • God
  • Love

• The more I talk to people who are at a place I'd like to be at, whether its music or writing, or being a doctor or entrepreneur, sometimes you get lucky, and right away something happens. But for most people, the common denominator of success is just working really hard.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• When I look at China's environmental problems, the real barrier is not lack of technology or money. It's lack of motivation.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Real
  • Money
  • Technology

• The funny thing is, I really feel it if I don't run. I start getting sluggish, and I feel like I need to do it. That's how I know that the workouts are working - I miss them if I don't have them.

  

  Kai Ryssdal
  • Funny
  • Know
  • Start

• I've worked with a lot of beauty companies over the years, but I really have to say that my own routine is very natural; like, I really try to be careful about the stuff I'm putting into my body, onto my body. I do believe in beauty foods - like, a lot of blueberries, salmon, kale, quinoa, avocado.

  

  Liz Goldwyn
  • Believe

• Who doesn't love a stuffed cherry tomato?

  

  Alex Guarnaschelli

• The mainland Chinese tend to take a Chinese mainland point of view on controversial issues, and the Taiwanese take another the Taiwanese viewpoint.

  

  Jimmy Wales
  • Chinese