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Small: I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with
Linus Torvalds
"I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find anything technically interesting there"
Linus Torvalds, Businessman
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Small: Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I dont remember the
Linus Torvalds
"Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day"
Linus Torvalds, Businessman
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Small: Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done
Linus Torvalds
"Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done"
Linus Torvalds, Businessman
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Small: Ive been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat
Linus Torvalds
"I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat"
Linus Torvalds, Businessman
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Small: Artists usually dont make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rath
Linus Torvalds
"Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it"
Linus Torvalds, Businessman
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Small: During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread and, as for the hope of immo
"During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come"
Mika Waltari, Author
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Small: Yeah Im still writing. Ive got about 14 tracks now. But weve been on tour so we havent had time to get back to
Ville Valo
"Yeah I'm still writing. I've got about 14 tracks now. But we've been on tour so we haven't had time to get back to a rehearsal place"
Ville Valo, Musician
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Small: Women are always beautiful
Ville Valo
"Women are always beautiful"
Ville Valo, Musician
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Small: Were trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be pick
Ville Valo
"We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath"
Ville Valo, Musician
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Small: Musics always been really cathartic. Its the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for
Ville Valo
"Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song"
Ville Valo, Musician
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Small: Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. Its not a tool for me to get fame or see
Ville Valo
"Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it"
Ville Valo, Musician
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Small: Its the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and th
Ville Valo
"It's the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking images that just take you away from the existing world for a second. And I like the latter a bit more"
Ville Valo, Musician
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Small: I havent travelled that much before so this is the first time I get to see the big cities of Europe. Ive never
Ville Valo
"I haven't travelled that much before so this is the first time I get to see the big cities of Europe. I've never even been to US"
Ville Valo, Musician
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Small: Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself a
"Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence"
Tarja Halonen, Statesman
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Small: That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on
"That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of the table has his own truth as well"
Harri Holkeri, Politician
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Small: One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe,
"One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries"
Harri Holkeri, Politician
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Small: In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex
"In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex"
Harri Holkeri, Politician
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Small: I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish
"I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems"
Harri Holkeri, Politician
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Small: Ive always been a huge reggae fan
Ville Valo
"I've always been a huge reggae fan"
Ville Valo, Musician
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Small: Theres always a lot of talk about motivation to race, but nobody really knows what I do or what I think apart
"There's always a lot of talk about motivation to race, but nobody really knows what I do or what I think apart from myself, so I don't really care what people think"
Kimi Raikkonen, Celebrity
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Small: In F1 too many things overshadow the racing. There is too much politics
"In F1 too many things overshadow the racing. There is too much politics"
Kimi Raikkonen, Celebrity
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Small: Without rebuilding the confidence between parties, you will never succeed
"Without rebuilding the confidence between parties, you will never succeed"
Harri Holkeri, Politician
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Small: What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by liv
"What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching"
Harri Holkeri, Politician
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Small: We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy
"We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy"
Harri Holkeri, Politician
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Small: We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions
"We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions"
Harri Holkeri, Politician
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Small: The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is pr
"The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden"
Harri Holkeri, Politician
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Small: Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping
"Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping"
Harri Holkeri, Politician
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Small: My opinion on whos wrong or whos right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people w
"My opinion on who's wrong or who's right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people who are against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation"
Harri Holkeri, Politician
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Small: If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and th
"If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing"
Harri Holkeri, Politician
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Small: I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker
"I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker"
Harri Holkeri, Politician
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Small: Well, for us, its always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it
Ville Valo
"Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens"
Ville Valo, Musician
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Small: Unfortunately we just toured the East and West coasts so we didnt run into any rednecks
Ville Valo
"Unfortunately we just toured the East and West coasts so we didn't run into any rednecks"
Ville Valo, Musician
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Small: Some genres Im not a huge fan of but there are always exceptions that break the rules. There are always a few
Ville Valo
"Some genres I'm not a huge fan of but there are always exceptions that break the rules. There are always a few people doing it in a way weird enough to grab my attention"
Ville Valo, Musician
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Small: So basically, I think music at its best can be everything. It can be totally stupid and very intellectual and
Ville Valo
"So basically, I think music at its best can be everything. It can be totally stupid and very intellectual and emotional at the same time. I don't think all those things shut each other out"
Ville Valo, Musician
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Small: Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for n
Ville Valo
"Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business"
Ville Valo, Musician
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Small: I love Johnny Cash but I dont love country music that much
Ville Valo
"I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much"
Ville Valo, Musician
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Small: Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame
Ville Valo
"Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame"
Ville Valo, Musician
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Small: The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. Ive almost stopped using make-up nowadays
Ville Valo
"The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays"
Ville Valo, Musician
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Small: Its like that with what sort of ideas people outside of the band have of HIM. They all see it through a differ
Ville Valo
"It's like that with what sort of ideas people outside of the band have of HIM. They all see it through a different lens as well which is beautiful. Hopefully, it makes it an endless topic of conversation"
Ville Valo, Musician
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Small: Im a huge fan of James Dean, that got me started. Nowadays I smoke four packs in a day
Ville Valo
"I'm a huge fan of James Dean, that got me started. Nowadays I smoke four packs in a day"
Ville Valo, Musician
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