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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He who gives love, receives love.
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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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My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice.
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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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Random distributions are not good things, because people are risk-averse, and this risk adversely affects their welfare. If you get too much price uncertainty, all kinds of long-term, mutually beneficial contracts can't be entered into.
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I have yet to meet very many people in the press who are really, truly interested in writing a good story or getting at the truth. Most press people, when they come into an article, have an angle that they want already, so they need points to support that angle, whatever the angle may be.
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You know, I respect what Howard Dean has been able to do. It's good for our party. But I've got to tell you this: If money alone decided presidential nominations, Phil Gramm would have been nominated in '96.
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Investing in early childhood nutrition is a surefire strategy. The returns are incredibly high.
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In response to 4 Good job. More public indecency, less TSA, that's what I say.
