Linus Torvalds Quotes
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The kind of classic pose of a female model is to look kind of sexy and a bit annoyed.
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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We've never been anti-Semitic.
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It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots.
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When I was in high school, I was doing all the plays. My drama teacher, Melody Duggan, was the one one who first made me do stand-up. She's the origin of the whole thing; it's all her. In high school in Denver, that was kind of the beginning of it all.
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I don't think badly of or oppose having plastic surgery. I once seriously thought of it, but I decided to take my appearance as it is.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.
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I would like to thank the 49 actors who appear on screen in 'Whiplash' for realizing Damien Chazelle's vision so beautifully.
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When my wrestlers got their hands raised, I jumped for joy.
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I don't have bad taste; I have no taste. I wear a lot of the things I wore in high school, but not the cowl-neck sweaters. I was never tall, and I am the same size, so I still wear a lot of those clothes.
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I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty.
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Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.
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This book is pointing the way into it for people that see it as daunting or a mystery. Some people just do it, but others need help with the mindset, permission almost to listen to themselves. Understanding how things work is the key.
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The weight and concentration of the poems fall upon things (and those great things, animals and people), in their tough, laconic, un-get-pastable plainness: they have kept the stolid and dangerous inertia of the objects of the sagas-the sword that snaps, the man looking at his lopped-off leg and saying, 'That was a good stroke.'
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The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.
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Love is a great thing. It is not by chance that in all times and practically among all cultured peoples love in the general sense and the love of a man for his wife are both called love. If love is often cruel or destructive, the reason lies not in love itself, but in the inequality between people.
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I'm not out here just for the money. I want to be a great player.
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I love festivals, period.
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My books are easy to read. No folderol.
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The engine of the tank is a weapon just as the main-gun.
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I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public - talent in privacy.
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Torvalds, Linus (2012-12-23). Linus Torvalds - LKML. Retrieved on 2012-12-29.
