Linus Torvalds Quotes
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Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off.
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I am only about winning and getting better.
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Adoptive parents are taking on enormous responsibility, both emotionally and financially. Quite frankly, they need as much disclosure as possible about the child's background and health to assure the best fit and be prepared.
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People are realizing that color has no bearing on what's known as brotherhood.
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Cussing ain't for everybody.
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If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career.
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I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.
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I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.
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The most futuristic aspect of the House of the Future was that it was made almost entirely of plastic.
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I'm a businessman and actor and I still make appearances.
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I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.
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By any definition, what happened in Bhutan in the years 1989-93 was ethnic cleansing. The Bhutanese government denies this and has refused to repatriate any of those forcibly expelled.
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I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up.
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I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody.
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My ambition is to get better as an actor.
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What can it matter to me, that I succeed or fail? The undertaking is none of mine, if they want me to succeed I’ll fail, and vice versa, so as not to be rid of my tormentors.
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Foucault, like David Letterman, made smirking glibness an art form.
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'Natural selection and the emergence of mind' dialectica Vol. 32 (1978), p. 339-355; republished in Evolutionary Epistemology, Rationality, and the Sociology of Knowledge (1987) edited by Gerard Radnitzky and W. W. Bartley, III
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It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person. Then I meet other writers and realize that they're not.
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I think having a strong wife and having a solid family are things that have helped me out a lot.
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Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.
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We do assert, however, that we must follow the road of liberation even though it may cost millions of nuclear war victims. In the struggle to death between two systems we cannot think of anything but the final victory of socialism or its relapse as a consequence of the nuclear victory of imperialist aggression.
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Don't bother. Bram doesn't know what he's talking about.
