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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There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.
Beck
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It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
W. C. Fields
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I'm the type of person who, if somebody offers me a free meal, I get excited because you never know where your next free meal is going to come from.
Paloma Faith
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Just to be a part of something that can travel beyond and reach the lives of people and help them through a daily problem or struggle or even just giving encouraging words, period. I feel like it's very powerful. I thank God for my gift.
BJ the Chicago Kid
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There are so many cliches associated with mental health - such as the 'fine line between lunacy and genius' - which are, on the whole, a load of rubbish.
Jo Brand
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I'm a compassionate conservative.
John Engler
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Portability is for people who cannot write new programs.
Linus Torvalds