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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When I worked on Altar Boys, they wanted to see us having fun. The four of us would have fun on set and steal each other's lines, and mess with the director.
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The illegal trade in apes has little to do with poverty. It is instead generated by the rich and powerful.
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There are outstanding blue cheese makers in America, and Berkshire Blue is one of them. It's really creamy and very flavorful. Michael has helped define American blue cheese.
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A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.
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Don't bother. Bram doesn't know what he's talking about.
