Larry Wall Quotes
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I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.
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Donald Trump has made it clear that he regards Hungary highly.
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Seven million ship cargo containers come into the United States every year. Five to seven percent only are inspected - five to seven percent.
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No one becomes an expert in a new career overnight, even if you are coming from another career where you were established and experienced.
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Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
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'Alias' was very action-packed. 'G.I. Joe' and 'Conan' were very action-packed. It's been established that I can do action, which is great, but now I may just want to make out with a really hot guy.
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When you get your opportunities, you've just got to go with what they said... I'll do what's necessary wherever they put me.
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The environment around you shapes who you are. How you handle an emergency or how you react when someone is rude to you, that's you.
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The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!
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On the consumer level, the products developed by entrepreneurs help to provide more and better options that make life easier and more enjoyable in the everyday lives of the public.
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I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other.
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Sure, the home-field is an advantage - but so is having a lot of talent.
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When people today say 'racism,' they mean it's a nationalism they don't like. Racialism used to be a good thing, a looking-out for what was best for one group... Israel comes out of that 19th-century idea of nationalism. Many Arab states also have preferences. It's fundamentally unfair to decide that one is racism and the others aren't.
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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.
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Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
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The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.
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What I see is not a world of male oppression and female victimization but an international conspiracy by women to keep from men the knowledge of men's own frailty. A strange maternal protectiveness is at work.
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Women in pro-ams are always telling me about all the business deals they've struck on the golf course playing with their male work colleagues.
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What is a woman's power then?" she asked. "I don't think we know." "When has a woman power because she's a woman? With her children, I suppose. For a while..." "In her house, maybe." She looked around the kitchen. "But the doors are shut," she said, "the doors are locked." "Because you're valuable." "Oh yes. We're precious. So long as we're powerless.
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The lady is almost the only picturesque survival in a social order which tends less and less to tolerate the exceptional. ... In the age-long war between men and women, she is a hostage in the enemy's camp. Her fortunes do not rise and fall with those of women but with those of men.
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The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.
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There are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it. I had a checkered early career with a lot of very unhappy experiences where pictures got taken away, re-cut, re-titled... all the nightmares one hears about. Consequently, it's so gratifying to then make a picture that's successful and gives you leverage to have better circumstances than you've ever had, before the next time out.
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