Linus Torvalds Quotes
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I love everything John Carpenter's ever done.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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Miguel has this Prince, Marvin Gaye, old-school feel that I love.
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We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.
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We never do Valentine's dinner, because everybody, they look. On Valentine's, imagine me and David going to a restaurant! Like, everybody's going to say, 'Did they talk? Did they hold hands?' Twenty years. We've been married twenty years!
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In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.
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My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.
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I like Disney stuff. No-one looks at 'Toy Story' and says,' Oh, that's just for kids.' Why is it that games can only appeal to a certain audience, but movies and books - I mean, how many adults read 'Harry Potter?'
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In principle... no government in the world can accept an armed terrorist group, some of them coming from abroad, controlling streets and villages in the name of 'jihad'.
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While the rest of the cable news world moved to opinion, CNN allowed me to stay true to my hard-news roots and supported me with a true commitment to old-school journalism.
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My mom didn't want us to go to the candy house, she didn't want us to go to the ice cream truck, she didn't want us to go to the... There was actually a donut truck, if that makes sense.
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To the revolutionary mind the American vista must have been almost as incredible as Genghis Khan's first view of China - so rich, so soft, so unaware.
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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
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Let's not forget, art can sell. You ain't gotta front all the time on your records.
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The U.K. is so important to me. It's everything - it's my home. I love America, but it's so important for me to be here and be an artist and be well known here.
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Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.
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Employment and health insurance are now protected by the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act.
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It will take time for the idea of decentralized trust through computation to become a part of mainstream consciousness, and until then, the idea creates cognitive dissonance for those accustomed to centralized trust systems.
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I fall in love with Britain every day, with bridges, buses, blue skies... but it’s a brutal world, man.
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…find freedom, aliveness, and power not from what contains, locates, or protects us, but from what dissolves, reveals, and expands us.
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Talk is cheap. Show me the code.
