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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And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into western institutions?
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Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.
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If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
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I don't blame Le Havre. Back then, I wasn't an easy person to handle. I was always one of the first to mess around. So there were a lot of reasons why my adventure stopped at that point.
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To get where you want to go you can't only do what you like.
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Intelligent people know others. Enlightened people know themselves.
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I am a lazy person, which is why I like open source, for other people to do work for me.
