Linus Torvalds Quotes

Those that can, do. Those that can't, complain.

Linus Torvalds

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• People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Culture
  • Without

• I'm probably the only relief pitcher who has more saves than strikeouts.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • More
  • Relief
  • Pitcher

• I'm an actor, full stop. Not an Arab actor. Not an actor of Algerian origin. Just an actor.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Stop
  • Just
  • Origin

• My husband and I don't have sons, so we never had to ask ourselves how we'd have felt about them playing football.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Football
  • Never
  • Husband

• I will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public.

  

  Yingluck Shinawatra
  • Exercise
  • Facts
  • Patience

• Barbour is a brand that I have grown up with and been associated with since I was living near the borders of Scotland.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Living
  • Brand

• 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?

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Live
  • Country
  • Poverty

• You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Movie
  • You
  • Acting

• Every week brings to us 10,080 minutes That is our capital. How shall we use it to get the utmost benefit?

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Week
  • Benefit
  • U.S.

• This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Book
  • Hands
  • Pleasure

• 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.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Think
  • Leaving
  • Awkward

• I really don't have a need to be on TV all that much, to be honest with you.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • You
  • Need
  • Honest

• It's later than it's ever been.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Been
  • Ever
  • Later

• I've lived three lifetimes in my short time.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Time
  • Short
  • Three

• The best thing is being able to perform in front of people and to express my feelings, whatever they may be at the time. Just to be able to make the world a happier place to be.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Find
  • Unknown
  • Concept

• Being nomadic isn't sustainable forever. I've gotten to be really good at it.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Good
  • Forever
  • Sustainable

• 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.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Heart
  • Beautiful
  • Patriotic

• 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.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Enjoy

• When I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might choose a Cabernet or Pinot Noir, or maybe a Syrah, depending on the sauce and what is in my cellar.

  

  Jacques Pepin
  • Beautiful
  • Food
  • Wine

• The young Japanese, especially, love to wear the latest thing and when they come to London they head for my shops as part of what they want to find in Britain.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • London
  • Britain
  • Shops

• A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood) from which there now proceeds a wish which finds its fulfilment in the creative work.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Creative
  • Memory
  • Writer

• Batroc is a laughable character. I'm the one who always makes fun of him.

  

  Jeph Loeb
  • Character
  • Fun

• Those that can, do. Those that can't, complain.

  

  Linus Torvalds