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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Everyday is another chance to get things right.
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Hit songs are mysterious and slippery beasts; few artists have a lock on them. This means that many people, like me, have become fans of songs rather than fans of artists.
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I just told the whole truth and that felt really incredible and really scary.
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The Democrats have prevailed because, at heart, we have embodied a great idea, which is that an elected government can be the instrument of the common purpose of a free people; that government can embrace great causes and do great things.
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Perhaps the worst software technology of all time was the use of physical lines of code for metrics. Continued use of this approach, in the author's opinion, should be considered professional malpractice.
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If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.
