Linus Torvalds Quotes
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People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.
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I'm probably the only relief pitcher who has more saves than strikeouts.
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I'm an actor, full stop. Not an Arab actor. Not an actor of Algerian origin. Just an actor.
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If the Planning Commission said those who live above Rs 5,000 a month are not at poverty line, obviously there is something wrong with the definition of poverty in this country. How can anybody live at Rs 5,000?
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You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom.
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This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.
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As we were leaving the Huron camp, it was awkward filming. I think that the Huron watching us was there to create tension - maybe we wouldn't get out. Nothing complicated.
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I really don't have a need to be on TV all that much, to be honest with you.
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It's later than it's ever been.
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I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing.
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Being nomadic isn't sustainable forever. I've gotten to be really good at it.
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I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.
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I've always loved Victorian melodrama. And I've always liked larger-than-life theater, providing it's truthful and honest. I like what the theater can provide in energy and bombast - I enjoy it when it's large, and by that I don't mean in size, I mean in emotions. Shakespeare did that.
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We became the songs we wrote.
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The true Genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
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If you want creative and successful children, resign yourself to jousting with rebels.
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The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.
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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.
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A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified, From the Marxist point of view, which expresses the historical interests of the proletariat, the end is justified if it leads to increasing the power of man over nature and to the abolition of the power of man over man.
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Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed.
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Omaha is no place for anybody.
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My family was always playing with words. It is little wonder that even after I got serious about writing, I've had a hard time getting serious about words.
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Lighting was very primitive. And still it was really the way to learn because sometimes some of the modern technology is so extreme and so compartmentalized that we lose sight of exactly what we're doing.
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Those that can, do. Those that can't, complain.
