Linus Torvalds Quotes
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North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
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Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.
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'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.
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It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
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I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.
Garry Kasparov -
I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
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Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.
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We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.
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I am hoping for a long career.
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Whether or not we are religious, respecting others should be seen as just as important as looking out for ourselves, yet it requires discipline to change our bad habits that cause pain to animals.
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I'll put my progressive credentials up against anyone's.
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I have a big problem with people who glamorize dumbness and demonize education and intellect. And I'm giving a pretty good description of Sarah Palin right now.
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I'm happy, and I think being happy keeps you looking young.
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These modern productions are all very well, But there's nothing to equal, from what I hear tell, That moment of mystery When I made history As Firefrorefiddle, the Fiend of the Fell.
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We do not want to leave Germany forever. Something I would not be able to manage at all, since my roots sit too deep in German soil.
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This is a righteous judgement of God upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood.
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Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song, and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self-congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.
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While in America beautiful is skinny, in Barbados it's thick - girls with huge butts and nice curves.
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I played a very complex, multidimensional character - Piglet in 'Winnie-the-Pooh' - at age 7 in England.
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When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?
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Every individual soul chooses the significant people in that life. Destiny will place you in the particular circumstance; it will dictate that you will encounter a particular person, at a certain time, place.
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The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.
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I think 'Scarface' is a great film, but if you have a character like Tony Montana, you don't identify with him at all. I think it's very interesting instead to identify yourself with a character you don't like all the time. You can create a tension between the fiction and the viewer. You force the spectator to wonder about his actions.
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And what's the Internet without the rick-roll?
