Linus Torvalds Quotes
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
Irwin Thomas
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
Samuel Butler
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
Ice T
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I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.
Zachary Quinto
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
Mae West
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I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'
Jacki Weaver
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
Victor Garber
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You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
Camille Claudel
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If I did a talk show, this would allow me to speak on what's happening at that moment. I can be current, and I get to flex my stand-up muscle but stay at home without doing the traveling.
Wanda Sykes
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Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
Tammy Faye Bakker
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
E. L. Doctorow
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After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
Fatima Sana Shaikh
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When I finished touring 'Fur and Gold,' I was just like, 'What am I doing? What do I have? Where is my home?' I didn't really know where it was, so I went to New York to try and make it there.
Bat for Lashes
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
Mallory Ortberg
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I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
Sami Gayle
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
Walter Cronkite
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Almost every character I've ever played - and sometimes this is very conscious and sometimes it's not - I need to find what they love.
J. K. Simmons
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I was never the girl that grew up saying I want to get married. I actually told my parents to not expect me to get married.
Camila Alves
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If you just focus on making singles, you lose the personality of the record. Because everything is not meant to go to radio.
Tracy Lawrence
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To some degree, this re-release is to let people remember what the first 'Saw' film was, and let them know there was a time in the 'Saw' history where it wasn't all about blood and traps.
James Wan
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It's not like I don't want to play the guy next door. But sometimes they're not the best written or the most complicated. But I am very, very particular about my bad boys. There are certain types of characters I will not play. I've said no so many times to so many parts that are just way too dark. You have to be careful.
Kim Coates
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Portability is for people who cannot write new programs.
Linus Torvalds