Linus Torvalds Quotes
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There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.
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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
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Do your eye shadow first, then your foundation. That way, you can clean up any mess without starting all over again.
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I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
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A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.
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I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy.
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Just to confirm to all my followers I have had a hair transplant. I was going bald at 25 why not.
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I think I was a pretty normal student; I just followed most of my friends.
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I was stationed at a marine recruit depot in San Diego from 1965 to 1967.
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There's a lot to be said for not displacing people.
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Music is not just a part of my everday life, I'm surrounded by it every minute.
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This medal goes to show that you don't always have to have the best facilities, the best organisation, the best of everything to achieve.
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I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.
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Too often, animal-rights supporters seem to care about animals to the exclusion of people.
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Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
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Yeah, I came in at the end of the Notorious album, played on about five tracks and then we went on a tour. Then we did another album, Big Thing, and then we started writing songs together in 1989.
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I am not Jewish, but I think that America invented nothing so fine as deli food.
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You cannot count on the physical proximity of someone you love, all the time. A seed that sprouts at the foot of its parent tree remains stunted until it is transplanted. Rama will be in my care, and he will be quite well. But ultimately, he will leave me too. Every human being, when the time comes, has to depart to seek his fulfillment in his own way.
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In America nothing dies easier than tradition.
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The fabric of democracy is always fragile everywhere because it depends on the will of citizens to protect it, and when they become scared, when it becomes dangerous for them to defend it, it can go very quickly.
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I grew up in the same place as my mother, seeing the same trees my mother saw when she was at work; the flowers I picked were the flowers that my grandma planted. We have different styles; I wouldn't make the same clothes that my mum made, or my grandma, but we have the same taste.
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If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.
