Linus Torvalds Quotes
I chose 1000 originally partly as a way to make sure that people that assumed HZ was 100 would get a swift kick in the pants.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I'm a big handbag lover and will always have one with me.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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War is the greatest failure of mankind.
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Springsteen is a hero to a lot of people in New Jersey. He's a role model - because he's a local guy who got out.
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Everyone's looking to the urban scene for inspiration now.
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Since I was a kid, I've liked to see how things are done. Sometimes when you see how things are done, it's like watching a 'making of' within the story. You see the physical aspect, the construction of things.
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I chose 1000 originally partly as a way to make sure that people that assumed HZ was 100 would get a swift kick in the pants.
