Linus Torvalds Quotes

Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never get them.

Linus Torvalds

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NeverSoftwareAbuseSystemBigGet

When you're doing 22 shows on network television, the writers are going on vapors towards the end and, as an actor, you're just trashed by the end.

Jimmy Smits

EndDoingYouTelevisionActorJust

It's inevitable that if you do okay on something like that you don't just annoy people, that it will make a difference because it seemed like such a lot of people so, yes I would have to say that it has done.

Jo Brand

PeopleMake A DifferenceYouDone

I don't believe in altering the Constitution.

Andrew Breitbart

BelieveConstitutionAltering

There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism.

Anatoly Chubais

StyleCapitalismTwoSameEconomic

I always acted in high school. Actually, I started in preschool. I was in a play about Jesus. I went to a Catholic school and played an angel and recited some poem about Jesus. It felt so long to me at the time.

Maura Tierney

TimeSchoolMeAngelHigh School

I was blown away by the control and the range that I was hearing. I'm listening to Pavarotti and thinking, What the hell have I been doing with my voice all these years?

Michael Bolton

ListeningControlVoiceThinking

I love sports, and I love playing sports.

Stephen J. Dubner

LoveSportsPlayingI Love

The realisation that, depending on where we changed from one note to the next in a melodic line, the music could subtly influence the entire meaning of a scene in so many ways was like a door opening to this amazing new world for me.

Steven Price

MusicAmazingMeDoorWorldMeaning

Looking back, I don't feel that I was the most brilliant mother. I was always very good at giving my children the right food, but it was one of my regrets in life that I didn't spend more time listening to them or playing with them.

Mary Berry

LifeGoodMotherChildrenTimeFood

Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this little rich girl. My mom and I lived in an apartment.

Liv Tyler

StarsHomeGirlChildhoodMomRich

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

Judy Garland

LoveWordsManSilencePeopleNight

I grew up in the Bay Area until 1976, then I pretty much went all the way through primary and high school on Bainbridge, though like anybody who grows up on an island, I ran the first chance I got.

Jonathan Evison

SchoolChanceHigh SchoolIslandWay

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