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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Kewell should have been yanked off the pitch at half time and put in a hot bath, a boiling hot bath.
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You can only confiscate the wealth that exists at a given moment. You cannot confiscate future wealth - and that future wealth is less likely to be produced when people see that it is going to be confiscated.
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Jerusalem is a holy site for Jews, Muslims, and Christians. Israelis and Palestinians both lay claim to it as their capital. Jerusalem is the most sensitive of all the issues that need to be addressed in order to achieve a peace agreement between Israelis and Palestinians. But Donald Trump determined an important aspect of the United States' position towards Jerusalem before any agreement. Most of the rest of the world feels that it ought not to be dealt with first, that it ought not to be dealt with separately, and that it ought not to be dealt with unilaterally.
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Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.
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Nothing is wasted in the sea; every particle of material is used over and over again, first by one creature, then by another. And when in spring the waters are deeply stirred, the warm bottom water brings to the surface a rich supply of minerals, ready for use by new forms of life.
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I allege that SCO is full of it.
