Linus Torvalds Quotes
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I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.
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Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.
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I like to add something unusual to a dish.
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I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.
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Gods always love the people who make em.
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When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
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Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.
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I have a Facebook page for me and my friends and a Twitter page.
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I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter. The conductor would just rip into me, and it lasted for years.
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I love 'Jane Eyre,' and I love the Bronte sisters. I actually didn't read any of them until I was in college, so I don't have quite the same connection with them that I think a lot of women do.
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I didn't spend a lot of time with prison guards, but my father was an assistant district attorney for a long time so I was always hearing stories about prisoners and prison guards.
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He wasn't interested in meeting the kind of women who would come to one of those places looking for the kind of man who hoped to meet a woman there.
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Don't Cry Darling, It's Blood All Right
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Oh, Amos Cottle! Phœbus! what a name!
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Sir, I just think that's it's fucking brilliant that you somehow managed to tie Chuck Norris, Chewbacca the Wookie, and Jesus Christ together.
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California, California Soon I'll be with you watching your sunset in the evening Movies and show plays, beaches and free ways California, from my home I'll be leaving
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From time immemorial, people have talked about peace without achieving it. Do we simply lack enough experience? Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. . . . War may be too much a part of history to be eliminated-ever.
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I feel the desire, or rather the intense need, to do something useful for society, and that is what stimulates me. In every situation I always look for what is positive and beneficial for my fellow citizens.
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If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?'
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All that we do is done with an eye to something else.
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I think when you slow Enrique Iglesias down and really listen to what he's saying, it's an explosion of bad taste.
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I love to cook, and my wife loves to cook. Sometimes it's the appeal of the simplest of dishes - things you've grown up with in your life. Your emotional memory - something that not only affects your taste buds but that you've got an emotional attachment to.
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Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.
