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The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.
Where's the mileage in an autobiography? Anyone who writes one inevitably casts themselves as a hero, and I'm not about to do that.
Maybe if people stopped thinking of themselves, and started thinking of the other sides of things, people wouldn't hurt each other.
A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.
We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.
It was a phenomenon I noticed many years ago. Young people were just giving up every bit of information about themselves they could.
When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.
If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
I think all great players set a target for themselves in their careers. Mine was to win a world title with Brazil, which I did twice.
Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are full of doubts.
Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.
We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.
We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons for being human.
The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem.
To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.
Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.
We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
I suspect that young adults crave stories of broken futures because they themselves are uneasily aware that their world is falling apart.
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.
One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.
The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.
There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
People are not considerate of others. They tend not to consider themselves as all living together, but see themselves only as individuals.
Don't take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves.
All parents all over the world want their children to lead a better life than themselves, but they need to believe that change is possible.
I smoked for almost 10 years. I really regret that. Thankfully, I came out on the other side. I hope my lungs are repairing themselves now.
The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about God.
People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.
If you can make me laugh, my heart is yours! I think there's nothing more attractive than someone who doesn't take themselves too seriously.
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves.
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
I take an approach of focusing on characteristics and qualities that I want to be as a teammate and the numbers will take care of themselves.
I am not telling men to step away from speaking for women's rights; rather, I am focusing on women to be independent to fight for themselves.
To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.
Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged.
I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.
Once my paintings are complete, the model no longer lives in the painting as themselves. I see something bigger, more symbolic - an archetype.
Karaoke isn't fair when you're a comedian. The whole idea is to get people laughing and enjoying themselves, and I'm a professional funny guy.
Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place.
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.
Everyone is allowed to be vulnerable. I think women and men and dogs and cats and ants and aliens can all express themselves and be vulnerable.
Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.
Democrats couldn't care less if people in Indiana hate them. But if Europeans curl their lips, liberals can't look at themselves in the mirror.