Linus Torvalds Quotes
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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None of our series are ever static in terms of the dates. We always have a range of flexibility to respond to whatever may or may not happen.
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Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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There's more student debt than credit card debt! Everywhere I go, I run into young people trying to build careers while they keep shelling out money on their education loans. If the economy is looking for a new generation of home-buyers, I can't imagine they'll get it from these folks.
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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.
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The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.
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I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.
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I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.
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I've never seen a movement spread as fast as the fossil fuel divestment movement.
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Just because you're a star on television doesn't mean that you can be a music phenomenon or an artist. You have to have the material to back it, and it's all about hit songs. I can name you every 'Idol' winner and why they didn't go on to have success - their songs. The ones who have - their songs.
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For me, I never take a job thinking it's going to grab ratings or that it's even going to be a success. I don't. I just take the job because I love the character. Or I love the script. Maybe I love the director. But whatever I do, I never think about how it will do. That is not in my hands.
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It's simply that older adults don't seem to be able to generate sleep efficiently, and that's why they're not getting it.
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I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted.
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I loved 'The Social Network.' I think it's one of those movies that will stand the test of time.
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I'm always right. This time I'm just even more right than usual.
