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Wikiquote talk:Quote of the day/March 15, 2005

This suggestion of Shakespeare's famous line was improperly entered on the Quote of the day/March 2005 page by someone using IP 84.56.18.77; I have no objections to it as the QotD for March 15, and placed it here, where it is properly configured. I think that no quote should be considered final and official for any day until 00:00 UTC for that day, and suggestions should probably be put on the talk pages of the days, until about a week in advance. ~ Kalki

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Category:Physicians

This category includes medical doctors, whilst doctors in other subjects may be found under their specialties (see parent category).

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Gilda Radner

Gilda Radner (28 June 1946 – 20 May 1989) was an American comedian and actor.

Quotes

 * Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.
 * It's Always Something (1989, 2009 edition)

 * It is so hard for us little human beings to accept this deal that we get. It's really crazy, isn't it? We get to live, then we have to die. What we put into every moment is all we have… What spirit human beings have! It is a pretty cheesy deal—all the pleasures of life, and then death.
 * It's Always Something (1989, 2009 edition), p. 87

 * While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die—whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.
 * Cells Popular's Young Discoverer Series, Discovery Channel (1988), p. 23,

Quotes about Gilda Radner

 * A company producing a television commercial was looking for child dancers. … It was a commercial set in the fifties, and a young family broke into dance. I was the son; I had a sister, a father, and a mother, who was played by Gilda Radner. Gilda had not yet been hired for Saturday Night Live (in fact, Saturday Night Live didn’t exist yet). It was a four-day shoot, and I, like every other human being who met her, fell in love with Gilda. And on the last day of the shoot, we said our goodbyes in the parking lot. I cried like a baby. My whole family came to pick me up, and upon seeing me crying, my brothers gave me a new nickname to replace Twinkletoes. I was hereby called Sucky Baby, because of the emotion I had displayed upon my cruel separation from Ms. Gilda Radner, who became known in my house as “your girlfriend.” I was Sucky Baby for ten years.
 * Mike Myers in "The Next Great Nation", chapter 3 of his memoir Canada (2016)

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Talk:Elizabeth II

Desperately seeking Elizabeth
Just a thought, but should Queen Liz really be entered under E for her first name? I looked initially under Q for Queen, then W for Windsor and only then under E for Elizabeth. Jez 15:11, 11 Mar 2005

 * Referring to her as "Elizabeth II" is following the Wikipedia practice of using a monarch's name and number as their article title, although Wikipedia typically adds their nation as well. (Wikiquote is still small enough that disambiguation between similarly named-and-numbered monarchs probably hasn't been an issue yet.) I'm not sure what you were looking under when you refer to "Q", "W", and "E" (perhaps List of people by name?), but most of the time, if I'm looking for a person, I just type into the Search box what the person is usually called. (I would have tried "Queen Elizabeth" first, then "Elizabeth II" or "Queen Elizabeth II".) I would never have thought to check "Windsor" for Elizabeth quotes specifically, as I wouldn't have expected anyone to create an article for the collected quotes of the Windsor royal family, but I suppose it's possible.

 * I've just now created redirect pages for Queen Elizabeth and Queen Elizabeth II for the sake of making the queries I mentioned above work. If someone adds quotes from the original Queen Bess of England, or when Wikiquote expands to include quotes from Queens Elizabeth of other nations, these article titles and content can be adjusted to accomodate the changes. I've also added this article to appropriate categories. — Jeff Q (talk) 01:23, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)

"I'm not sure what you were looking under when you refer to "Q", "W", and "E" (perhaps List of people by name?)" - Yes - I was looking in the alphabetised list of names. Thanks. Jez

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User:Jez~enwikiquote

Hi, my name's Jez, and I'll add more content to this about page just as soon as I get my head around how to create Wiki pages, because at the moment I haven't got much a of a clue!

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Roy Hattersley

Roy Sydney George Hattersley, Baron Hattersley (born 28 December 1932) is a British Labour politician and journalist. He was born in Sheffield and first elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Sparkbrook in 1964, remaining the constituency's MP until 1997. Hattersley served in the cabinets of Harold Wilson and James Callaghan, and was Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1983 to 1992 with Neil Kinnock as leader. Hattersley was on the right of the party during his active career but later became critical of Tony Blair. As a journalist, he had written columns for The Guardian and the Daily Mail.

Quotes

 * In my opinion, any man who can afford to buy a newspaper should not be allowed to own one.
 * Quoted in Tom Bower, Maxwell: The Outsider (1988) ch.13

 * Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.
 * The Guardian (30 September 1988)

 * In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.
 * Evening Standard (9 May 1989)

 * The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society.
 * The Independent (21 July 1989)

 * Diversity was the encouragement of people to live together in harmony despite their differences and rejoice in the differences rather than deplore them.
 * Interview for "of Blood", BBC2 (8 March 2008), at 23:21

Quotes about Hattersley

 * Roy Hattersley...returned to the smoke of battle in Westminster where he at once began to work actively for Callaghan. He called in Roy Jenkins's room to tell him ... Roy Hattersley told him why. His growing lack of sympathy with Jenkins's political position was reinforced by Jenkins's recent television broadcast saying that more than 60 per cent of national income devoted to public expenditure would lead to tyranny – quite the opposite of what Tawney and Crosland had written and Hattersley himself believed. Hattersley was supporting Callaghan for fear of ‘splitting the vote’ and letting Foot in.
 * Susan Crosland, Tony Crosland (1982), p. 315

 * Until Roy Hattersley said he would shoot himself if I became prime minister, I had not been able to see any possible advantage in standing.
 * John Reid in his speech to the Labour Party conference in Manchester (28 September 2006), quoted in ‘Confront Muslim extremists - Reid’, BBC News (28 September 2006)

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Nick Cohen

Nick Cohen (born 1961) is a British journalist and political commentator. Following accusations of sexual harassment, he left The Observer in 2022.

Quotes

 * Former lefties can make a good living in the media by attacking their ex-comrades – I'd do it myself if the price was right.
 * "The Rebels who changed their tune to be pundits" New Statesman (12 August 2002).

It [Blackpool council] is promising to compulsorily purchase the land for the casino, which is currently occupied by the police station and law courts. In a sign of the times, the council will agree to demolish public buildings that once embodied law and order to clear the ground for a gambling den and then spend public money on new homes for the police and judges. It gets better. The council already has spent public money on designing the new casino and finding a developer to put it up.
 * [Proposals for multiple Las Vegas-style "super casinos" in the UK were under discussion at the time] Yet, to date, it is far from clear if the casino will give money to Blackpool or Blackpool give money to the casino. ...
 * The reason why Blackpool has to pay out gets to the heart of the delusion behind New Labour's thinking. It's not the scale of the poverty that puts the casino operators off the town, but that Blackpool's poverty is not great enough. ... Blackpool, like most seaside towns, is too far from the big centres of population to provide enough poor, addicted, desperate or foolish gamblers to allow the casinos to operate seven days a week, 52 weeks a year.
 * "Take from the poor to give to the rich... that's New Labour's super-casino plan", The Observer (19 March 2006)
 * See Regional casino for the UK-related term "super casino". The proposals for a "super casinos" was scrapped in February 2008 under the new government of Gordon Brown; the Blackpool bid had been rejected in favour of Manchester. The Manchester project itself had been blocked under a House of Lords gambling order vote in March 2007.

The sooner he leaves the better.
 * In an unintentionally revealing moment, Brand describes attending a trade union march against austerity. He complains that the protesters are not like Islamic State terrorists but "flaccid" and placid. He has a case. For all its many faults, the British left does not imitate Isis. It does not commit genocide and practise sexual slavery. Its "revolution", when and if it comes, will consist of boring, gradual attempts to restrain an economic system that is running amok. Russell Brand will want no part of its tedious reforms and will go off in search of bigger thrills.
 * "Revolution by Russell Brand review – the barmy credo of a Beverly Hills Buddhist", The Observer (27 October 2014)
 * On Russell Brand's book Revolution.

About Cohen
"I assume it's stuff I was doing when I was drunk," said Mr. Cohen, a recovering alcoholic.
 * Seven women told The New York Times that Mr. Cohen had groped them or made other unwanted sexual advances over nearly two decades. Four insisted on anonymity, fearing professional repercussions. In each case, The [New York] Times reviewed documents or otherwise corroborated their accounts.
 * Mr. Cohen's reputation was widely known in the newsroom, according to 10 former colleagues, both male and female. One former colleague said she and other female journalists had used a different entrance to a pub to avoid being groped by him. Another woman said she had avoided the bar downstairs from the newsroom after Mr. Cohen grabbed her knee during work drinks.
 * Informed that seven women had come forward with sexual misconduct complaints, Mr. Cohen exclaimed, "Oh, God."
 * Jane Bradley "A British Reporter Had a Big #MeToo Scoop. Her Editor Killed It.", The New York Times (30 May 2023)
 * A fortnight later, Guardian News & Media, publishers of The Observer (and sister title The Guardian), apologised to several women for Cohen's behaviour and announced policy changes in the way the company deals with complaints

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Donald James

Donald James (22 August 1931 — 28 April 2008) aka Donald James Wheal, was a British author and screenwriter.

Quotes

 * At least half of my life’s many mistakes can be safely put down to impetuosity: the other half derive from inertia.
 * Vadim

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Jeremy Seabrook

Jeremy Seabrook is a writer and journalist. He is also a renowned dramatist whose plays have been staged in London for weeks.

Quotes

 * I have experienced as violence the emergence of the culture of compulsory industrialised joy, which is the companion of consumerism.
 * The Guardian, 11 December 2004

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Kiefer Sutherland

Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland (born December 21, 1966) is an Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning Canadian television and film actor, best known for his role of Jack Bauer on the series 24.

Quotes

 * Love is a self-manifested notion depending on how lonely you are - so if you're really attracted to someone, and you're really lonely, I think you can fall in love in an instant. It's all about where you're at.
 * Interview in The Observer (6 March 2005).

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Tzvetan Todorov

Tzvetan Todorov (1 March 1939 - 7 February 2017) was a Bulgarian-French historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist, essayist and geologist.

Reading as Construction (1980)

 * As translated from French by Marilyn A. August

 * Nothing is more commonplace than the reading experience, and yet nothing is more unknown. Reading is such a matter of course that at first glance it seems there is nothing to say about it.

Hope and Memory: Reflections on the Twentieth Century (2003)

 * As translated by David Bellos ISBN 1843543605

 * Democracy brought to others through the barrel of a gun is not democracy; to impose it by force is to undermine it.
 * Preface to the English edition (October 2002), p. xxi

 * Pride is not a wise counselor. People who believe themselves to be the incarnation of good have a distorted view of the world. The absence of any obstacle to the deployment of strength is dangerous for the strong themselves: passion takes precedence over reason. "No power without limit can be legitimate," as Montesquieu wrote long ago. Political wisdom does not consist in seeking only immediate victory, nor does it require systematic preference of "us" over "them."
 * Preface to the English edition (October 2002), p. xxi

 * A maxim for the twenty-first century might well be to start not by fighting evil in the name of good, but by attacking the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found. We should struggle not against the devil himself but what allows the devil to live — Manichaean thinking itself.
 * Ch. 5 : The Past in the Present, p. 195
 * paraphrased variant:
 * We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found.

The New World Disorder: Reflections of a European (2005)

 * American society has always exercised a stronger pressure on individual behavior than Western European societies; but in time of war this pressure is notched a few degrees, and starts to become quite alarming.

Quotes about Todorov

 * Fantasy changes the world deliberately, allowing impossible things which science fiction at least pretends not to allow. Yes, I say "what if magic worked, and then...," and "what if there were dragons... yes. Then you just follow out, you just follow the fictional enterprise like any novelist, it seems to me, and the more detailed and accurate you are, the better the book will be. And of course, the tricky thing about imaginative fiction, both science fiction and fantasy, is the coherence of the imagination, because you are making a whole world out of words only. It's all made to hold together. Tolkien is very clear about that in some of his essays. He's the best theorist of fantasy I know, actually, Tolkien himself. The European fantasy theorists, Todorov, and those people, they are terrible, terrible. The works they are talking about always seem so insignificant to me. That's not what I mean by fantasy.
 * 2002 interview in Conversations with Ursula Le Guin

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Raymond Blanc

Raymond Blanc (born 1949) is a French chef.

Quotes

 * When you cook it should be an act of love. To put a frozen bag in the microwave for your child is an act of hate.
 * In Nicola Woolcock, "Celebrity Chef Dishes Microwave Mothers", Daily Telegraph (2 October 2001).

 * It's not the microwave that's the problem, it's what people put into them. I know people lead busy lives but they should try to sit their children down at the table once a week and cook them simple food.
 * In Nicola Woolcock, "Celebrity Chef Dishes Microwave Mothers", Daily Telegraph (2 October 2001).

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David Baddiel

David Baddiel (born 28 May 1964) is a British comedian, writer and television presenter.

Quotes

 * Earlier last year, following the spate of statues being toppled as part of the Black Lives Matter protests, a protester a long way from Minneapolis – in Broadstairs, Kent – sprayed the words "Dickens Was A Racist" on the Dickens House Museum. The protester was called Ian Driver and he was prompted by a letter that Dickens had written decrying the Indian Mutiny in 1857. Unquestionably, the letter is racist. However, it is strange that Driver had to go all the way to a relatively obscure piece of correspondence by Dickens to become inflamed by his racism, when, in Oliver Twist, in plain sight, and widely known to us for many, many years, has been Fagin. But maybe he doesn't count.
 * Extract from Jews Don't Count (TLS Books), as cited in "Left out", The Times Literary Supplement (29 January 2021)
 * In May 2020, Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd. It has been estimated 15 million to 26 million Americans participated in the Black Lives Matter protests which followed.

From the novel Whatever Love Means

 * [A]ction restarting action: all we need to reverse inertia is some sense of consequence - some sense that beyond this occurrence there is another, and that they are linked, some sense that life has chapters.

 * [H]e felt frustrated, his sense of fate and direction subverted by banalities - the frustration of the man who, having thought himself following his destiny, finds he is actually on the A318 to New Malden.

 * That's the thing about your destiny: how are you supposed to know it when it arrives? How are you supposed to recognise it from the random life?

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Jolene Blalock

Jolene Blalock (born March 5, 1975) is an American actress, best known for her role in the science-fiction TV series Star Trek: Enterprise.

Quotes

 * I don't know where to begin with that one...the final episode is… appalling.
 * On the final episode of Star Trek: Enterprise

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User:John-1107~enwikiquote

About the United Nations and international warfare

 * "If i am elected, i will transform the United Nations into a Direct Democratic Centralist Imperial Federal Republican Military and space colonization and world social governmental organization. Unity and Peace are the UN's gift from God."

 * "The people need me, my friends need me, i will elect most of my supporters to government positions if they want to. What will my friends think of me when i become one of the United Nations leaders?"

 * "Every threat to world peace will be eliminated militarily or be peacefully absorbed into the United Nations. Peace may fail and we fight wars for peace, we should not have false propaganda and questionable wartime objectives. War and Peace are both eternal."

As my Dark Side Alternate reality clone ego

 * "Search you feelings. You know it to be true."
 * "Join me and we can rule our world and the universe"
 * "Don't make me destroy you"
 * "Impressive...most impressive"
 * "If only you knew the power of the dark side."
 * "You are unwise to lower your defenses."
 * "You underestimate the power of the dark side. If you will not fight, you will meet your destiny."
 * "I find your lack of faith disturbing."

Link
Meta-Wikimedia John-1107 core pages

Quotes about me
(please put a quote about me here)

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Talk:Jimmy Wales

Notice
All quotes on the page Jimmy Wales are true. If disputed, ask Jimmy Wales, but do not delete them before they are confirmed to be hoax.
 * I'm afraid I still don't believe the ones listed at #Dialog. They don't sound like Jimbo; perhaps they were made by an impostor. I'll believe them when either Jimbo confirms them (preferably on this talk page) or a reliable source is cited. Seahen 21:44, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
 * A quick check of the citation shows that this is not likely to be true. Removing pending verifiability.  GChriss 23:01, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Need to comment?
A new addition "I regard it as a pseudonym and I don’t really have a problem with it." - yeah it would be remarkable, particularly for English Wikipedia concerned, but perhaps it would be more and more obscure after time goes by? So I think we'd better to add a commentary - but I find myself in a conflict of interest. I think I am too much emotionally involved, and afraid most of us so - anyway the person who was regarded was a part of our community. Is there anyone who is bold enough make a comment to that quote? --Aphaia 04:07, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
 * the best comment belongs to boxingwear, the innocent lamb:
 * http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales&diff=1398351&oldid=1373360

boxingwear's

"Drama mongers"
I much prefer this quote, which shows the true nature of just how flawed this project is.

"And as long as some people like to pretend that our carrying out of policies against posting private emails on the wiki is an attempt 'to suppress discussion' then we will continue to allow drama mongers to control the discussion of things on the site"

This is already linked to, but this part of the quote is happily ommitted from the article. This is exactly how wikipedia is, and this is what is wrong with the site. 216.37.86.10

 * I'm afraid you are laboring under a misapprehension. Wikiquote does not collect everything and anything that someone says just because they are notable. Although it admittedly contains quite a bit of substandard material, largely due to the fact that people treat articles as dumping grounds for anything they can find somewhere, it tries to encourage citing only those quotes that are somehow memorable for the long run by expecting explicit sources from reliable publications. Wikimedia projects are not, in general, reliable sources from which we can source quotes.

 * For Jimmy Wales, the point can be argued, since although we can't accept Wikipedia as a reliable source for the general identity of almost anyone, Wales is a prominent exception. However, one major reason that we demand more traditional publications like books, magazines, newspapers, etc., is that their independent editorial staffs have decided the material is worth quoting, just as WP reliable sources vet material to be used for WP articles. (The system isn't perfect, but it's far better than anything else we have available.) Given this philosophy, it is unlikely you will find anything found only in a Wales posting to a discussion page or maillist, positive or negative, that makes a good Wikiquote quote (regardless of what this article currently contains).

 * In short, anything generally memorable from Wales, or any other subject, should be printed or reprinted in a reliable source, which we should cite. Anything memorable only to Wikimedians isn't worth quoting here, any more than quotes only interesting to fans of TV shows or video games are Wikiquote-worthy. And stuff cited here for the sake of documenting Wikimedia events and attitudes is most defintely not Wikiquote material, any more that it is Wikipedia material. That's far too omphalaskeptic. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 01:33, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Seth, you're an idiot
This quote was installed here, but then removed as not being notable enough. It has been mentioned in a couple of notable places now, though -- Valleywag and Nicholas Carr's Rough Type, in addition to Seth Finkelstein's own writings. At what point might it become worthy of inclusion on Wikiquote? -- Thekohser 12:40, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

 * Just because something has been reported and sourced doesn't mean it's a quote to preserve for posterity. Wikiquote is not a memoir or documentation service. The words themselves should convey an idea that goes beyond their immediate context. There's nothing especially original or pithy about this statement.

 * We have a lot of editors (particularly in TV-show articles) who seem to believe that quotes that denote a significant moment in time for the participants are inherently worthy of inclusion in Wikiquote. But such situational quotes, which are only meaningful for the participants, just don't make for timeless, pithy sayings. On rare occasions, such a quote can become so famous that it might rise above these problems, like Rhett Butler's "Frankly, Scarlet, I don't give a damn" from Gone with the Wind, or General McAuliffe's response to a World War II German ultimatum, "Nuts!". But there should be one heck of a lot of cultural propagation before we would want to include something like that.

 * Regardless of how famous Jimmy Wales is to Wikimedia editors, I know of nothing that he's said that meets this general guideline for unoriginal but outrageously famous lines. So like the vast majority of quotes, we should only be including his well-sourced, original, pithy statements. And that means that a lot of the stuff in this article isn't very quoteworthy. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 01:33, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

An erroneous explanation
Regarding this section:

''You have caused too much harm to justify us putting up with this kind of behavior much longer.

 * * On the User talk page for Giano II, regarding his public disclosure of the inflammatory contents of a private e-mail distribution list (25 November 2007)

This was absolutely not regarding anything of the sort. And in any event, it is very very hard to imagine that this quote is in any way notable. It strikes me as an attempt to portray my position on an important issue (public disclosure of private em-mail) in a way that is not consistent with my actual position.--Jimbo Wales 02:30, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
 * As Jeffq has written in his comments on this page, there are a number of quotes in the article that are unmemorable in themselves; they are documentary evidence for matters that would, at most, be of interest to no one but the wiki community. This lack of memorability and self-sufficiency alone would be reason to have them deleted. I am going to edit out all the wiki trivia and will transfer unsourced quotes to this talk page. - InvisibleSun 03:28, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Unsourced

 * If you can provide a precise, verifiable source for any quote on this list please move it to.

 * And so, we don't need a business model, we're just doing it. ~ 200?

 * Most people are good. They may not be saints, but they are good.

 * Stop the huns by showing them neighborly love!

 * It's a very simple and pure goal. It's something that's good for the world. We're still not there by a long shot.
 * Comment to the Birmingham News, "Alabamian is brain behind Wikipedia"

 * "It's been an ongoing process of figuring out how the social model actually should work, how can you control the site to generate quality," Wales said. "It's an ongoing series of modifications."
 * Comment to the Birmingham News, "Alabamian is brain behind Wikipedia"

 * It's very exciting to all of us. I travel all over the world. I think that worries my mom some, (but) it's nice.
 * Comment to the Birmingham News, "Alabamian is brain behind Wikipedia"

 * Like the great artists Jerry Lewis and David Hasselhoff. I'm only appreciated overseas.
 * Regarding a cancelled event in St. Petersburg, as quoted in TechNewsWorld

 * I'm more like the Queen of England — my power is decreasing over time. Soon, I'll just wave at parades.
 * As quoted in TechNewsWorld

 * "Men's Health" might be the single best periodical since Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg invented modern book printing. I'm kidding. It definitely is.
 * As quoted in TechNewsWorld

Invisible Sun on a deletion kick
Please review these deletions of content by User:InvisibleSun. May we please have a discussion here to determine if these are legitimate purges of inappropriate content, or whether this is an inappropriate sanitizing of the quoted history of Jimmy Wales? -- Thekohser 19:54, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

 * Remove. I endorse InvisibleSun's position: this is wikiomphaloskepsis. The remarks are not so well said, insightful, or important to the world at-large as too merit inclusion here. That something served a documentary purpose in the context of a newspaper article does not, in itself, make it a remarkable quotation to be memorialized for posterity. ~ Ningauble 22:01, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Formatting
Why are so many of the quotes on the page showcased in bold text, while many others are in standard text? It would seem to me that the page would look better with consistent formatting, preferably unbolding stuff, per the guidance here. Would someone want me to take a crack at it, or would my assistance in improving Wikiquote be a blockable offense? -- Thekohser 16:52, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
 * In my opinion, one that is widely shared in the publishing world, when a typographic effect such as boldface is overused its effectiveness is undermined. Go ahead and tone it down, but don't be surprised if you encounter contention. Some contributors are more enthusiastic about boldface than others. ~ Ningauble 19:32, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Thekohser did remove the bold, which was definitely overused. Practice on other pages seems to be to bold particularly pithy or well-known quotes. He was reverted, apparently because he's Thekohser. I'm reviewing them and will leave some bold, based on my own opinion. The extensive bolding that now exists simply makes the article ugly and detracts from noticing the most well-known quotes. --Abd 22:57, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

The Daily Show with John Stewart
Jimmy was just recently featured on The Daily Show with John Stewart! Wikipedia is rarely mentioned in the news as it is. Nobody bothered to grab one quote from it? Son, I am Disappoint!67.149.243.229 21:24, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

Is it ok to add this quote ?
One of my Wikipedia editor friend 'Abhijeet Safai'(Abhijeet also likes to edit articles on Mahatma Gandhi) liked following Jimmy's quote very much ; is it ok to add the same in this wikiquote article ? WhataQuote (talk) 12:44, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

 * "In the old days, I would have just personally blocked the troll on sight, and that would have been the end of that. One of the things that makes wikis work is precisely the ability of the community to tell people to knock off the nonsense or get blocked.

 * If you go back to the disastrous culture of unmoderated Usenet groups, you can see what happens if it is too difficult to block trolls from participation. What happens is that good people reach the end of their good humor and lash out. The social environment degrades to people screaming at each other and it becomes quite hard to tell the good people from the bad. If someone says that they "consider Wikipedia to be an intrinsically evil concept" then the solution is not to get emotional and lash out at them in anger, but to realize that telling them to fuck off is not nearly as satisfying as maintaining a good sense of humor while making them fuck off (with a permanent ban). We have better things to do!--Jimbo Wales (talk) 12:00, 28 August 2012 (UTC) "

 * I wouldn't, because it is not very succinct. (Jimbo is usually pretty good at making his point in a nutshell.) Is this quoted by any notable secondary sources? ~ Ningauble (talk) 15:44, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

New version
There is a new version of Jimmy Wales' concise thesis: "Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge." On the Wikimedia website. It's too similar to the original, even if it has a different author. -Inowen (talk) 00:07, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
 * could you please elaborate. Thanks in advance, Ottawahitech (talk) 19:58, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

REQUEST for help The problem of gender bias
I have added a quote reported by writer Tim Walker who wrote about the problem of gender bias at the online encyclopedia on  16 August 2012 in the Independent.

I found the ref to this quote  on a 2012 deletion discussion in a comment made by  an  IP. The deletion discussion comment contains the complete quote which I cannot see in the news article because of a paywall. So here is the complete quote as it appears in the that discussion: "I hope someone will create lots of articles about famous dresses,' Wales wrote. 'Our systemic bias caused by being a predominantly male geek community is worth some reflection in this contest. We have nearly 90 articles about Linux distributions… I think we can have an article about this dress. We should have articles about 100 famous dresses." I hope someone can add the missing part of the quote (with a ref that is not paywalled) and the date it was made by Jimbo Wales

Thanks in advance, Ottawahitech (talk) 16:16, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Yeah about that, so if Jimmy Wales is against gender bias on the online community he helped build, then why isn't he listed as a feminist activist? Also, he is categorized as an activist, but for what causes specifically? Has he ever advocated either pro-choice or pro-life views, and would simply stating his opinion on that issue make him an activist automatically or is there some kind of requirement Wikiquote has for being listed as an activist that he has not met? Why isn't Joe Biden categorized as an activist? Shouldn't politicians be a subcategory of the generic activist category, they all advocate for something. I'm pretty sure politicians meet whatever requirement we have for inclusion in that category, assuming that there is one beyond self-identification. There's a lot of evidence that numerous historical figures were gay or would be considered as MSM or WSW, but they don't get labeled as such either on Wikipedia or here unless they self identified because then we'd have to decide on a standard of evidence. CensoredScribe (talk) 00:01, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

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@Philip Cross

Strange. But I'd rather say the 2005 user was mistaken because on the 2001 revision (the very first one) it is clearly written " as edited by JimboWales". Synotia (talk) 16:08, 7 March 2023 (UTC)

 * The User:JimboWales account (an alternative account) does seem to have been blocked by mistake. However, a comment deleted in May 2005, would not seem worth reviving as a notable comment by Jimmy Wales. Philip Cross (talk) 18:29, 7 March 2023 (UTC)

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Tim Moore (writer)

Tim Moore (born 18 May 1964 in Chipping Norton) is a British travel writer and humorist.

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 * I hate plays. I've never seen the point of paying money to watch people shout a lot and pretend to die, and now that I'm the father of three young children I don't have to.
 * Do Not Pass Go (2002)

French Revolutions (2001)

 * One of the most unfortunate things about being an unfit Englishman cycling long distances in France is the number of signs that yell 'PAIN' down every high street.
 * Lourdes is the Blackpool of Christianity.

title: Tim Moore (writer)


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Bruce Chatwin

Bruce Charles Chatwin (13 May 1940 – 18 January 1989) was a British novelist and travel writer.

Quotes

 * Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the "things" of that particular country: leaves, fruit, insects and so forth. "We give our children guns and computer games," Wendy said. "They gave their children the land."
 * The Songlines (Penguin, 1987, ISBN 0140094296, p. 270)

 * To lose a passport was the least of one's worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe.
 * The Songlines (Penguin, 1987, ISBN 0140094296, p. 160)

title: Bruce Chatwin