Linus Torvalds Quotes
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, interviewer (1998‐03-02). First Monday Interview with Linus Torvalds: What motivates free software developers?. Retrieved on 2013-06-02.
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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
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Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.
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I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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I don't ever want to stop making country, and I don't want to stop making electronic music, either.
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I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.
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I don't think you can judge something without seeing it.
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We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
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I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.
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It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.
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When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.
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There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Fans will express themselves. We will always have the best security possible, as we always do. And I hope that Cleveland and the fans, you would hope that everybody keeps it to a certain level, because anything you do that crosses the line isn't going to look bad for anybody but the franchise and Cleveland.
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Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.
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I don't know how I got involved in 'Celebrity Wife Swap.' It came from my agent Hugh. He got the opportunity for me.
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I think it is all about finding ways to challenge yourself.
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I guess I have to prove myself all over again, even if it's to the world. I don't have a problem doing that.
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It seems to me now that the deep structures [in writing] are often subconscious and set in childhood.
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I want to be one of the greatest athletes ever to live, not only in track and field, but in all of general sport.
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I am generally wary of the demand for 'likeability' in fiction, which I think is a bastardisation of the demand of identification - itself something of a suspect notion.
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I will never forget standing with fellow members of Congress on the steps of the Capitol to sing 'God Bless America' on the night of 9/11.
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Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, interviewer (1998‐03-02). First Monday Interview with Linus Torvalds: What motivates free software developers?. Retrieved on 2013-06-02.
