Linus Torvalds Quotes
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.
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I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
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How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
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I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.
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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
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I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
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During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.
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Men frequently think that the evils in the world are more numerous than the good things; many sayings and songs of the nations dwell on this idea. ...Not only common people make this mistake, but even many who think they are wise.
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A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change.
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I am not a hoodlum. I'm a community organizer.
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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
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This is like the telephone problem - no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of people who want some sort of technology to solve the spam problem.
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I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.
