Linus Torvalds Quotes
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.
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My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.
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Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.
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We have the 2004 M1 here for reference, which is useful. It worked well here last year; we won the race and always did fast lap times so it will be interesting to compare it to the new bike and it will help us to understand which parts have improved.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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I'm liberal on every social aspect, probably. More liberal than people would even believe. But there's still some of that Texas in me, as far as the gun debate. I wish there were no guns; I'm all for gun restrictions. But I'm also of the mind-set, if nothing changes, I'm getting a gun.
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But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.
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I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.
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Acting has made me embrace my childhood. It's become some weird form of therapy. It's like I have a place where I can release all of these emotions. When I was playing Ira Hayes, I didn't have to think about the death of my parents directly. It's just there. I can blend it into Ira's character. I can use Ira's emotions as an outlet.
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The thing people don't understand is that touring or travelling or whatever you do in my position means you go to all these cool places all over the world, but you see everything from a car window. You don't get to see much of the city or meet people at all.
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Reform and exchange in English poetry are as slow as in the British constitution itself.
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We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message - get the job done.
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I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please - not that it's not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.
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My parents were incredibly strict, almost military style.
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In response to 4 Good job. More public indecency, less TSA, that's what I say.
