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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We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.
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An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.
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Coldly, sadly descends The autumn evening. The Field Strewn with its dank yellow drifts Of wither’d leaves, and the elms, Fade into dimness apace, Silent;-hardly a shout From a few boys late at their play!
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A poet's work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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People unacquainted with graphic novels, including journalists, tend to think of 'Watchmen' as a book by Alan Moore that happens to have some illustrations. And that does a disservice to the entire form.
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I am a lazy person, which is why I like open source, for other people to do work for me.
