Linus Torvalds Quotes
… I really hate big laptops. I can't understand people who lug around 15' (or 17'!) monsters. The right weight for a laptop is 1kg, no more.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
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To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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I've always exuded some connection to my sexuality even as a kid. So to me, being sexy means staying connected to that part of me.
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I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.
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Unfortunately, the public might not know that we get a script usually two days before shooting. So sometimes I'm shooting an episode and don't even know how it's going to end because I haven't read that yet.
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It sounds boring, but I'm such a guitar junkie and a gear junkie. I'm always fiddling with my stuff. It's relaxing to me... I'm always pulling my stuff apart, getting my pedal board out and fiddling with it or changing guitar strings.
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You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new.
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There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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I go to bed at 2 A.M. and get up at 7 A.M. - I've never been a sleeper. But I definitely get sick every month-and-a-half.
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… I really hate big laptops. I can't understand people who lug around 15' (or 17'!) monsters. The right weight for a laptop is 1kg, no more.
