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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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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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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I'm not a Democrat.
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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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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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I have no idea why one of our most original filmmakers would want to spend two years of his life translating someone else's movie from Spanish into English. And it wasn't such a good film in Spanish, either.
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Some people say I'm attractive. I say I agree.
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People don't say they're pregnant until the second trimester. I intellectually understand that you don't want the whole world to know your business, but at the same time, what does that mean? You don't tell your employers you're pregnant, but then when you miscarry, no one knows you miscarried. Miscarrying is a horrible, painful event.
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Here, lads, we live by the law of the taiga. But even here people manage to live. D’you know who are the ones the camps finish off? Those who lick other men’s left-overs, those who set store by the doctors, and those who peach on their mates.
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The players are coming to try every game, every weekend, so that the Manchester City people can be proud, and we will see what is our level to achieve our battles.
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I am a lazy person, which is why I like open source, for other people to do work for me.
