Linus Torvalds Quotes
'Regression testing'? What's that? If it compiles, it is good; if it boots up, it is perfect.
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I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
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All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.
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I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
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It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.'
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I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.
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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
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I loved 'Dirty Sexy Money.' That didn't have a long enough shelf life. I would've liked to explore that character and play with that cast longer. That was a lot of fun to shoot.
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It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
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I think the skin is the most important thing. If you take care of your skin, you don't really need much makeup.
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
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Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.
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I hope we've got a lot of fairways and greens. We'll go from there.
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A traveler is really not someone who crosses ground so much as someone who is always hungry for the next challenge and adventure.
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I always felt really lucky that I only lost my legs, because it could've been so much worse.
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For every age there is a popular idea about what madness is, what causes it, and how a mad person should look and behave; and it's usually these popular ideas, rather than those of medical professionals, that turn up in songs and stories and plays and books.
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I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.
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My belief is in the chaos of the world and that you have to find your peace within the chaos and that you still have to find some sort of mission.
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'Regression testing'? What's that? If it compiles, it is good; if it boots up, it is perfect.
