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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Philip Roth has made a cottage industry of unlikable characters, but compared with Mickey Sabbath, the furious and profane protagonist of 'Sabbath's Theater,' Roth's earlier creations seem like Winnie the Pooh.
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I'm equally guilty of using technology - I Twitter, I text people, I chat. But I think there's something strangely insidious about it that it makes us think we're closer when in fact we're not seeing each other, we're not connecting.
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We need to let the referee's sole thing be to protect the quarterback and get those late hits out of there. They even have a stat on television that says 'knockdowns.' Knockdowns means that you knock him down after he throws the ball. The assumption is, if it's legal, we'll make excuses for them.
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It's really empowering to have curly hair.
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If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.