Linus Torvalds Quotes

Torvalds, Linus (2012-08-26). Linus Torvalds - Google+. Retrieved on 2012-08-27.

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• People have to evolve.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • People
  • Evolve

• I could live naked... I love it.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Live
  • Love
  • Naked

• I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Family
  • Opportunity
  • Lost

• You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.

  

  Edgar Cayce
  • You
  • Never
  • Lose

• I'm not a trend person. I don't want to look to my right and see somebody in the same thing.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Want
  • Look
  • Same

• If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Want
  • New York
  • Paris

• The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • War
  • History
  • True

• When you take on something like your footprint on the environment, you have to say, 'Where am I going to draw the circle around my level of responsibility and then where do I assume that others will take responsibility?'

  

  Sally Jewell
  • You
  • Responsibility
  • Environment

• Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Give

• Throughout the 19th century, Britain bought cheaply from the countries of the empire and compelled subject countries to buy our goods at high prices.

  

  Kate Williams
  • High
  • Empire
  • 19th-Century

• As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different climates, political beliefs and people, and that was our music.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• The main problem that we have in Lebanon, and in the region, is we don't have a real peace process and I think this is the main focal problem that we have in the region.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • Real
  • Peace
  • Problem

• I can't sleep in the evenings. Most of the pictures people see of me are me going to work events: a Fendi dinner one night, a Prada dinner the next, and working all day.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • Work
  • Night

• I am a method actor, but I'm also a film actor as well as a method actor. Characters that don't have humility, whether they are heroes or villains, are hard to relate to. All characters in every aspect of what we do should have humility. If they don't, then they're a cartoon character.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Film
  • Actor
  • Humility

• It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting, how it has changed our moods, brought out the best in our character and even sometimes helped us earn a living.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Music
  • Character
  • American

• When you get to be 103, modernism is a very wide concept.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • You
  • Very
  • Modernism

• I wanted to use the hippo to get people out of their homes, away from the Internet and the TV, and to explore London with a new perspective.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • People
  • Perspective
  • Internet

• We did not think that Nasser wanted war. The two divisions he sent to Sinai on May 14 would not have been sufficient to launch an offensive against Israel. He knew it and we knew it.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • May
  • War

• While it can be aggressive playing rugby, the aggression doesn't leave the rugby pitch. A Real Man doesn't need to use violence or be abusive to others, especially towards his partner and family. I am proud to support the Women's Aid Real Man campaign.

  

  Danny Care
  • Real
  • Support
  • Violence

• Coming out of the closet doesn't always mean liberation.

  

  Jenny Zhang

• I don't understand women who don't encourage each other. I think compliments and showing affection are really important, too. Women don't do that enough, and it's so essential because even if you're shy about giving a compliment, it's good energy; it's uplifting.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Good
  • Important
  • Women

• The year was 1882. The palace was the Luxembourg Palace: the ball, the Senat Bal, held at the beginning of autumn. It was still warm, and so the garden was used as well. I was the soprano. I was Lilliet Berne.

  

  Alexander Chee
  • Beginning
  • Garden
  • Autumn

• In a certain sense the liberation of slaves is the destruction of property – acquired by descent or by purchase, the same as any other property.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Sense
  • Property
  • Slaves

• Torvalds, Linus (2012-08-26). Linus Torvalds - Google+. Retrieved on 2012-08-27.

  

  Linus Torvalds