Linus Torvalds Quotes
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I would have never signed the Patriot Act. I would have never signed the National Defense Authorization Act allowing for arrests and detainment of you and me as U.S. citizens without being charged.
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I didn't start working out until college. But in college I could feel my body changing, and I knew that if I didn't make some changes, I was going to go in the wrong direction.
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Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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Celebrities become excluded from everyday life, kind of in exile in an echelon that is deemed better, anyway: Life of celebrity, all the fame and glamor.
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Some of the best ideas that we've invested in have made no sense to conventional sources.
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At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.
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Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
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We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held.
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I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.
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According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
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'General Hospital' was so massive in the 80s and that's when people my age or even younger watched that show. A generation grew up on that show, Luke and Laura, I came in on the cusp of that so there's still a lot of 'Frisco.'
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No one wants to hear my perspective on politics, but I think honestly as you get older, you get more interested in it.
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I guess I don't take my stardom too seriously. I think I am one of the guys.
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I enjoyed being anonymous.
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Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.
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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
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As governor of California in 1970, Reagan endeared himself to millions of conservatives nationwide when he publicly rebuked the anti-war movement that was exploding on college campuses.
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I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.
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Having a diverse sense of taste - or lack of taste - I loved so many different things. I was drawn to the stupidity and excitement of glam, I had a thorough upbringing in rhythm and blues.
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I've worked on films where the budgets are almost limitless and you're in trailers that are bigger than a hotel room. You're taken care of and the food is amazing, the quality of the job is amazing and then you work on smaller things but it never dictates my happiness or my willingness to go to work.
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The hardest situation to pick up a girl in is ... in church and in Morocco on Ramadan. On Ramadan or one of those religious days? Try to pick up a girl is bananas.
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Any job that allows me to use my pure water cleaning system and water fed pole is one I love. The wow factor for the customer after we New View Window Cleaning are done and they can't believe what we did with "just water and a brush" is something I never tire of.
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I allege that SCO is full of it.
