Larry Wall Quotes

I don't know if it's what you want, but it's what you get.

Larry Wall

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• Nothing else matters except that I have fun, and I'm still having fun.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Fun
  • Matters
  • Having Fun

• I really miss the Australian lifestyle and being around my friends and family.

  

  Nathaniel Buzolic
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Lifestyle

• I grew up riding horses since I was eight. I rode English style and competed every weekend. I had two horses, Scout and Camille, and they were my babies. It taught me a lot about responsibility and commitment. I hope horses will always be in my life.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hope

• For me, I'm not a jealous person. That's just not my thing. You have to have trust in your relationship.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Relationship
  • Person
  • Jealous

• Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • American
  • Community
  • White

• In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering why I, out of thousands like me, had become famous.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Why
  • Me
  • Lost

• I work on the boundary between economics and statistics in this field called econometrics. Part of my interest is understanding how you use statistics in productive ways to analyze dynamic economic models.

  

  Lars Peter Hansen
  • Work
  • Understanding
  • Economics

• Success in Iraq will be a major setback for terrorists and a major asset for the security of this region. The struggle for Iraq is the struggle for the future of the world.

  

  Zalmay Khalilzad
  • World
  • Future
  • Success

• I've been told from the start, 'Don't fall in love with the horses'. But that's so hard. I'm in awe.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Love
  • Start
  • Hard

• There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Time
  • Work
  • Men

• Good scripts are hard to find.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Good
  • Find
  • Hard

• You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • World
  • Dream

• Soldiers - You are about to return to your homes and your friends, after having, as I learn, performed in camp a comparatively short term of duty in this great contest. I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • Country
  • Friends

• Being up on something is a way of dismissing it. To espouse any point of view is a danger - it might leave us stuck with last year's cause. Prized for their novelty alone, ideas, gimmicks, trends become equivalent, interchangeable.

  

  Edmund White
  • Up
  • Alone

• Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?

  

  Patrick Henry
  • People
  • Good
  • Men

• I could scarcely bear to look at her eyes. They promised such intimacies.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Eyes

• Heaven’s Sovereign saves all beings but himselfThat hideous sight,-a naked human heart.

  

  Edward Young
  • Heart
  • Heaven

• It was one of the oldest tricks of mob-management: give them a hate figure.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Hate
  • Management

• The skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age. ... Shaper of cities and fortunes, it is the dream, past and present, acknowledged or unacknowledged, of almost every architect.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
  • Dream
  • Building
  • Architect

• One of my favorite stories is, I got fired off 'Bionic Woman' in part because I was told that I don't know how to write women, and they promptly replaced me with a guy. What I find lovely about the story is how unaware the white dude who said that to me was when he said it.

  

  Laeta Kalogridis
  • Women
  • Guy

• The mission statement of the RSC is to foster a constitutionally bound limited government, it's to have a strong national defense, it's to protect private property rights and it's to support American values. That's what the mission statement is. There's nothing in the mission statement about trying to hold leadership accountable.

  

  Bill Flores
  • Trying
  • American
  • Strong

• I don't play a character. It's totally just an extension of myself.

  

  John Cena
  • Character

• McConnell's the Senate Republican leader, but he refuses to lead on defunding Obamacare. What good is a leader like that?

  

  Matt Bevin
  • Good

• I don't know if it's what you want, but it's what you get.

  

  Larry Wall