Linus Torvalds Quotes
Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.
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I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.
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My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
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I always say that I'm at my best when there's no example of what the character is supposed to be. I thrive when there's not much and I have to create it.
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There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
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In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.
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I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.
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In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
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I'm usually listening to Sirius Satellite in the morning. 'The Heat' usually plays good music.
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Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
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I fed my ego, but not my soul.
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He took me under his wing when I first came to the Rams and taught me everything – his technique in the pass rush, how to play off blockers, and how to make the big play.
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So many venues are owned by these various different ticketing and promoting people, and they're all in bed with one another. It's no secret over here.
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It was always my dream, to do a leading role on Broadway. It's what I went to college to do, in hopes of one day someone taking a chance on me and saying, 'You know what? You're going to be our girl.'
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A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.
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Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.
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Philosophers are never quite sure what they are talking about - about what the issues really are - and so often it takes them rather a long time to recognize that someone with a somewhat different approach (or destination, or starting point) is making a contribution.
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As man now is, God once was:As God now is, man may be.
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I try not to think too far into the future; I'm kind of a day-by-day kind of guy.
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New York is about as cosmopolitan as it gets. It's a fairly mixed and woke town, so there weren't a lot of situations growing up where I felt like the outsider or the alien.
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My education, according to the tradition of the Jesuit school which I attended, had been centered on the 'ancient humanities', and I was strongly attracted to the more literary branches.
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Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.
