Linus Torvalds Quotes

I realize that lawyers are brought up (probably from small children) to think that 'technically true' is what matters, but when you make public PR statements, they should be more than 'technically' true. They should be honest. There's a big f*cking difference.

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• It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.

  

  Jack Straw
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• My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • American
  • House
  • Looks

• Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • World
  • Wonder
  • Recognise

• Greetings and death to our enemies.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Death
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• Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Family
  • Culture
  • Movies

• I wasn't completely comfortable in the footy culture because I wasn't that comfortable in my own skin, which I am now. I'd fit in better now, but I don't miss the training and the injuries you get playing footy.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Culture
  • Training
  • Comfortable

• I get paid the same money if I'm fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It's the future. The Internet, many people watch it.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Money
  • Future

• The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • World
  • Art
  • Science

• When I was starting out, I always wanted to be able to do everything - comedy and drama and action, and everything in between. Film is so diverse, and it's fun to be able to take advantage of all of it.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Fun
  • Action
  • Comedy

• On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

  

  Edmund Hillary
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  • Satisfaction

• I'm a child of the Sixties.

  

  Ian McShane
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• We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Money
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• Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
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• I don't take breaks, man. In the past, I used to spend my free time getting in trouble, and now I spend it working on my music. If I'm not playing drums with my cover band, Chevy Metal, I'm working on songs for myself.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
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• The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.

  

  Gavin Newsom
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  • California

• Let's remember that our children's spirits are more important than any material things. When we do, self-esteem and love blossoms and grows more beautifully than any bed of flowers ever could.

  

  Jack Canfield
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  • Children
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• Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Spiritual
  • Psychology
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• I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Angry
  • Two
  • Getting

• If you only hear one side of the story, at some point, you have to question who the writer is.

  

  Clint Smith
  • Question

• We still have a long way to go ... I hope the virus will give us that time.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Time
  • Long
  • Hope

• I'm terrible with my workout regime and following it strictly. I'm terrible with a healthy diet and following it strictly. I'm terrible on the weekends about getting up at reasonable hours and all of those things. But, when it comes to my work and the discipline it takes to get to work on time - I hate unprofessionalism.

  

  Katherine Heigl
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• I've been fascinated with the subject of loss for a long time. In particular, I'm interested in how people, consciously or unconsciously, spend their lives replacing the things they lost when they were children.

  

  Jill Davis
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• For the first case I did with Octone, 360 deals were not at all being talked about. And then for the follow-up case, it was the focus. I wanted to see how things were changing and what the new challenges were.

  

  Anita Elberse
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• I realize that lawyers are brought up (probably from small children) to think that 'technically true' is what matters, but when you make public PR statements, they should be more than 'technically' true. They should be honest. There's a big f*cking difference.

  

  Linus Torvalds
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