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
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
M. C. Escher
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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
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
Dan Aykroyd
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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
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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
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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
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
V. S. Naipaul
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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
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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
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
Yaya Toure
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On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
Edmund Hillary
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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
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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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No art is superior to another one, but every art looks for expertise and perfection. This is life, which continues; this is why there is no death. There is continuation. There is no silence. There is a continuation of thought.
Marcel Marceau
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You're doing it again. Using reason to argue faith. Can't be done. Like playing croquet with a crochet hook. Sounds something like the right tool for the job, but isn't.
K. J. Bishop
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I think when you live with somebody, you grow up. You learn a lot about yourself through somebody else.
V V Brown
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Politics is challenging for everyone's integrity... I have to wake up with myself every morning, and I have to be OK with the person I wake up with. If I string together too many days of waking up with a person I'm not happy to be, I have a lot bigger things at stake in my life than an election or a job.
Betsy Hodges
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America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.
James T. Farrell
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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