Larry Wall Quotes

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Larry Wall

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• It is the job of our military to protect America and to hunt down and kill those who would threaten to murder Americans.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Job
  • America
  • Military

• I've always cared about fashion and what I look like. I don't like to spend a lot of money on designer clothes, but I do like to look good.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Good
  • Money
  • Fashion

• My parents always supported me and complimented me on other things, not just my looks. They told me I was capable, that I was smart, that I was creative.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Parents
  • Smart
  • Creative

• I don't think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee its replacement will still be based in immature behavior from mature figures.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Think
  • Change
  • Humor

• Portraying visual impairment is difficult. I can see what's going on, but I have to act like I can see nothing. And this can be quite a challenge.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Challenge
  • See
  • I Can

• Even if we don't believe in church or God, we still believe in things that are bigger than ourselves. We need to believe in those things because if we can't be open to what we don't know, there's no hope for any of us.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • God
  • Believe
  • Hope

• Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement which once pervaded a considerable part of the country, in reference to the transportation of the mails on the Lord's day.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Country
  • History
  • Day

• When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?' They want that.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • People
  • May
  • Trust

• John Schneider's cool. I mean, he is the epitome of cool. To be that confident without any chip on his shoulder is very hard to do, and that man just has it. To be that well-known and still be so personable and social, it's just fantastic.

  

  Randy Wayne
  • Man
  • Cool
  • Confident

• I don't think men get enough flowers. A deeper pink or red peonies are my favorite. But I'll take anything, really.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Men
  • Red
  • Flowers

• You have to build trust among team members so that people feel free to admit what they don't know, make mistakes, ask for help if they need it, apologize when necessary, and not hold back their opinions.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Help
  • Free

• We eat food all the time and don't really understand what goes into something like bread.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Time
  • Food
  • Bread

• You cannot underestimate the influence of Shakespeare.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Influence
  • Underestimate

• I am confident my Hindutva face will be an asset when dealing with foreign affairs with other nations.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Face
  • Confident
  • Hindutva

• No Muslim country has ever done as much as Turkey to make itself over in the image of a European nation-state; the country's westernised elite brutally imposed secularism, among other things, on its devout population of peasants.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Country
  • Done
  • Over

• Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

  

  Tacitus
  • Fall
  • Service
  • Chance

• I've always said that I use my voice as an instrument. It was something I created myself, and I said, 'Have voice, will travel.'

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Myself
  • Travel
  • Voice

• When we were filming 'The Darkest Hour,' we didn't even know what the aliens were going to look like, we didn't even have a graphic reference. So it was definitely a big challenge to sell those kind of extreme moments when you're just generating them from your own imagination.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Moments
  • Imagination
  • Challenge

• All young people believed they were immortal, and he had personal experience of the methods they used to cull themselves - base-jumping, sky-diving, hard drugs, alcohol. Over the years he'd come to see solid sense in the ways so-called savage peoples formalised their rituals of manhood; without such regulation, young men seemed compelled to invent their own, even more lethal, rites of passage.

  

  Alison Fell
  • Immortal
  • Manhood
  • Rites

• As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.

  

  Jason Schwartzman
  • Respect
  • City
  • Alone

• When I designed my loft, I literally framed the World Trade Center as a picture postcard I could see from my bed. I no longer have that image, and I mourn it.

  

  Bernard Tschumi
  • World
  • Picture
  • Framed

• One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.

  

  William Osler
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Attitude

• They can always run stderr through uniq.

  

  Larry Wall