Linus Torvalds Quotes
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This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.
Rachel Joyce -
All the women that are first born daughters in my family are named Mary, but we've all been given nicknames. I don't know how or why that started, but I'm nicknamed after my great-grandmother, who was Mamie. No one ever calls me Mary, except only if my husband is very serious about something.
Mamie Gummer -
Meditation isn't snake oil. For some people, meditation might be the most efficient way to reduce stress and cultivate mindfulness. But it isn't a panacea. If you don't meditate, there's no need to stress out about it.
Adam Grant -
I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know.
Eddie Rickenbacker -
I've spent more money on my theatres since I bought them than I did buying them.
Cameron Mackintosh -
Wherever I go, people are so kind and so lovely and so warm and show their best self. So I feel very lucky.
Rachel Platten
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For me, the greatest thing a movie can do is rivet you while you're watching but also give you something to chew on for days and weeks after you've seen it.
Taylor Sheridan -
When no one knew who Dana White was... Dana White used to run around with me, hang out with me, and I treated him just like anyone else in my camp.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
When you wait to the last minute, you rush to get things done, and the closer you get to the deadline, the less options you have.
Dan Webster -
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
Viktor E. Frankl -
To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms.
Gary Lucas -
I went to the University of Michigan for one year, and fortunately they had a foreign-film cinema, and I discovered it, and I thought I died and went to heaven.
Madonna Breakfast Club
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The adventurer in me would love to visit Patagonia, Chile.
Rachel Platten -
We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.
W. Somerset Maugham -
I insist, that if there is any thing which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity, of their own liberties, and institutions.
Abraham Lincoln -
Lispers are among the best grads of the Sweep-It-Under-Someone-Else's-Carpet School of Simulated Simplicity. [Was that sufficiently incendiary?]
Larry Wall -
Suppose atomic bombs had reduced the population of the world to one brother and one sister, should they let the human race die out? I do not know the answer, but I do not think it can be in the affirmative merely on the ground that incest is wicked.
Bertrand Russell -
On a detox loft through a Glendale Park over sidewalk chalkSomeone wrote in red, 'start over.'
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
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I am mindful that the goal of protest is not more protest, but the goal of protest is change.
DeRay Mckesson -
Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?
Burt Lancaster -
If you have the 'Total Information Awareness' project working, it might be relatively easy to find everyone who had bought more than a ton of fertilizer and 500 gallons of diesel in the last year, which would be a great way of spotting potential Tim McVeighs - but it would also spot half the farmers and ranchers in America.
John Perry Barlow Grateful Dead -
Its like Dr. Doolittle in this fucking house here.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
Gcc is crap.
Linus Torvalds