Linus Torvalds Quotes
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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The first impression that I liked doing was an impression of Cheri Oteri's Barbara Walters impression on 'SNL.' I found that I could mimic that pretty well, and people got a kick out of that.
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NASA should start thinking about this planet.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.
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I think I've got some more big plays left in me.
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
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After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
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I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.
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Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges in attacks in 2009 and 2010, is often cited as the most dramatic use of a cyber weapon.
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Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.
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We have people working for us full-time because they were forced to retire at 65. I know that I never want to stop working, and I am glad that I can offer positions to others who feel the same way.
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At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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I'm the slowest driver in the world.
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Can we really mobilize support, even of friends, when we tell them that if you are not with us you are against us?
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The real and most pressing question raised by any social problem is: "How do I appear concerned and compassionate to all my friends, colleagues, and peers?
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He plants trees to benefit another generation.
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I've got a green card, so I can work there any time, but I hate reading about actors going to America, because it's not like that anymore.
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Friends don't let friends use gcc '-W'.
