Linus Torvalds Quotes
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I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.
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I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.
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I enjoy Saturday night racing.
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I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.
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OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.
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When I was young, 'Scarface' was my favorite film. Al Pacino is my hero. I want to work with him.
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When I said I could beat Alexander Gustafsson in a standup fight, people laughed at me. They thought, 'No way.' But I believe in what I'm seeing every day.
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I think my role, I want to have a presence both behind the scenes and in front of the camera. So I can't say on one particular thing, so I'll just name them all. I'll be the jack of all trades and hopefully decent at one of them.
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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
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I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.
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If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.
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There are people who are surprised at my politics and being a conservative and the rest of it. But the truth of the matter is, to my knowledge, I have never been overlooked or turned down for anything that I wanted to do that was being offered to me.
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I did the 'Justice League' thing the wrong way. I read too much on the Internet. You can't do that. The Internet is the devil. Or the Internet is not the devil - the comment boards are the devil.
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Never let the negativity get to you. There are gonna be a lot of people you have to plow through, but as long you believe in yourself, that's all that matters.
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Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.
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Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.
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I like touring extensively because I think the more hours you spend onstage, the more you know who you are onstage.
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Every reader his or her book.
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Gossip columnists are diseases, like 'flu. Everyone is subject to them.
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Here, the revolution was prepared. Here it was achieved. Here all the great events were fostered.
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As a kid, I was always very shy growing up - I wasn't very good at articulating my thoughts or my feelings. Now that I'm older, I found acting to do that. So it's been an amazing way to sort of express who I am.
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The cost of oblivius daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realigment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse. Her reverie, once rich in plausible details, had become a passing silliness before the hard mass of the actual. It was difficult to come back.
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The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease.
