Linus Torvalds Quotes
People say that you should not micro-optimize. But if what you love is micro-optimization... that's what you should do.
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There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
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I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.
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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
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No two wars are identical.
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It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.
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What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
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I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.
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Governments getting involved in sports activities would ultimately damage sports.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars.
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Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.
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Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery.
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The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
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I'm really grateful to my fans - to all the people who support me.
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I love you like a river that creates the right conditions for trees and bushes and flowers to flourish along its banks. I love you like a river that gives water to the thirsty and takes people where they want to go.
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People say that you should not micro-optimize. But if what you love is micro-optimization... that's what you should do.
