Linus Torvalds Quotes
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We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.
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I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.
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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.
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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
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I wanted to write a story set in the Lovecraftian universe that didn't gloss over the uglier implications of his worldview.
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If ballots won't work, bullets will.
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There is - I will just say that there was a disastrous day where I discovered really what radioactivity is and that just because you don't see it doesn't mean that it's not everywhere, so - Yeah. I was a slow learner for sure.
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Jim played - he had a great stretch in the middle of the round there, and Chad made that long putt on 16. Almost got that match. We ended up losing, but we almost won it, too.
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I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it.
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The great thing about gurus is not that they make you feel everybody's love. It's that they make you feel that you can love everybody.
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I'm kinda a first take dude. The first time, cut that mic on, and the spirit is there, and what comes on the mic - I mean, even if I'm mumbling, I like to keep a lot of that initial thing that comes out. Cause that's the spirit.
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I just want to create, and socializing is part of the experience. It might sound crazy, but I don't see myself in the jewelry business. It's an experience.
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If you love Barry Manilow, you're gonna love the Insane Clown Posse. Love 'em. They're exactly... well, they're not EXACTLY alike, but they're a little bit alike...
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I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
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Fraai volk, de Duitsers. En daar behoorde ik ook eens toe!
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose - Anything goes.
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Most great fortunes are built slowly. They are based on the principle of compound interest, what Albert Einstein called, "The greatest power in the universe."
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I am a born fighter throughout my political life. I have not lost my heart by the results of the Parliamentary elections.
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The great classics that, as a professional you don't get to do, you do as a student, when you don't know any better.
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A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.
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When I'm playing comedy, I never do 'jokes.' Sometimes I'll deliver a line in a way I think is more likely to get a laugh, but all the best comedy is played straight. What's funny is the way it hits the world around it or the way it hits the other characters.
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On the internet nobody can hear you being subtle.
