Linus Torvalds Quotes
I am a lazy person, which is why I like open source, for other people to do work for me.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
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Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.
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He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.
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I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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In men's sports, people criticize coaches and managers all the time, call out teammates, too, and it's not that huge of a deal. Often, the guy speaking out is even lauded for having the courage to tell the truth. When it happens in women's sports, though, it always seems to be viewed as a nasty, claws-out cat fight.
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This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.
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People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.
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My shows and my material are grounded in reality. It's pretty much something that's either happened in my life or in the news, and I start there and give you my take on it.
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Because I was suspicious of the traditional Christian church, I tended to tar them all with the same brush. That was a mistake, because there are righteous people working in a whole rainbow of belief systems - from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters to charismatic Catholics.
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When you keep the caliber of musicians very high in the band, people are going to come and go. Some of them will be people who have to try various things, it's natural.
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I am a lazy person, which is why I like open source, for other people to do work for me.
