Linus Torvalds Quotes
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Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that.
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.
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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
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Cornwall bears a certain resemblance to Italy: each is like a leg or boot, but Italy stands a-tiptoe to the south, whereas Cornwall is thrust out to the west. But, whereas Italy is kicking Sicily as a football, Cornwall has but the shattered group of the Scilly Isles at its toe.
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
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You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
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I have always wanted to be liked and respected.
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My mother gave me a push. If I hadn't had her, maybe I wouldn't have had the push. If I hadn't gone to military school, maybe I wouldn't have decided to get with the program. Maybe I'd be running a bulldozer, rather than going on and doing something more.
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Those who own much have much to fear.
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No one reads my books until they're finished because I don't want feedback. It confuses me, and it changes things; if I get too much feedback, I get thrown off my path.
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I enjoy playing someone who doesn't show up and say, 'This is what I am, and this is what I'm about,' but is someone who, four hours in, makes you go, 'Really? Is that what's going on?'
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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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Identification of rhythm as the causal counterpart of life; wherever there is some life, only perceptible to us when the analogies are sufficiently close.
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«What we have done, which you did not do, is to deceive people.»
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With the neutron bomb, which destroys life but not property, capitalism has found the weapon of its dreams.
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‘…Women I do not much care for myself - I prefer little Greek shepherd-boys…’
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I'm a daydreamer - a purposeful one when I'm writing fiction.
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Obviously, death is ahead of me. I don't look forward to dying one little bit. But, you know, I simply don't worry about it because it's going to happen to me as it does to anybody.
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Everyone gets lucky once in a while, but no one is consistently lucky.
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I am an optimist by nature and believe strongly that technology can be brought to bear to create alternatives, even in crisis situations.
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Toto, I don't think we're talking white-socks-and-sandals any more.