Linus Torvalds Quotes
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.
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Some artists get so comfortable now after even one or two albums and think, 'I'm the biggest artist in the world,' but it's like, yeah, you are for now, but you've gotta work so that you're remembered further, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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We need to address our Nation's mounting garbage problem by generating less garbage, particularly paper waste.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
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Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
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A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.
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I'm a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.
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Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined with unpredictable outcomes. It's a perfect genre in which to explore hard issues of good and evil, a mirror that allows the reader to see both the good and not so good in themselves.
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The fact that we see some people doing what appears to be good civic-minded deeds may be because that is their true intention, and it may be that that is their best way to hold onto power in a setting where they have to depend on a lot of people.
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I can't tell if I'm a good person or I'm faking really well.
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Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.
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This is the time to remember cause it will not last forever. These are the days to hold onto cause we won't although we'll want to.
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An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.
