Larry Wall Quotes
A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.
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I used to shop in ASDA all the time. Every now and then I still go in to get a little salad for lunch.
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Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them.
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It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?
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I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him.
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I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.
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I would describe my personal style as eclectic.
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Canada is a big part of my life.
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But probably this is helps to win, to win, to gold, more gold medals, and to win most my important medal, heart of people. This is most important for me.
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I am a total workaholic. If I don't shoot for two days, I get uncomfortable at home. I won't comment on my personal life. That is totally out of bounds. When I do get married, everyone will know.
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I liked Dallas better because it was more deceptive, you could do more with it.
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Among the world's 500 largest companies, not one has completely relied on its own growth to develop.
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When I was 17, I used to really think about what I wore every day.
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Not that I want to put the entire rap music style down - I just don't like it. And I know somewhere there's gotta be another guy like that. There's gotta be a guy just like that - just like me. There's gotta be somebody, somewhere... Maybe, maybe an assassin type.
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There was a certain feeling I developed as a young person for black people. Somehow they were able to get pleasure out of things that I couldn't see them enjoying. I heard them sing a lot, and I didn't hear white folks going down the cotton rows singing that much.
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At that time I was making the largest salary known on television and I didn't want to see it die because those were the years paying off when I wasn't making anything.
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It's easy for me to be motivated and inspired by seeing somebody who just goes all out to do something.
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History shows us that people are terrible about guessing what is going to happen - next week, next month, and especially next year.
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I've learned very, very, very clearly that money does not equal happiness or security, either.
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Hollywood gives a young girl the aura of one giant, self-contained orgy farm, its inhabitants dedicated to crawling into every pair of pants they can find.
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Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.
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People always live forever when there is an annuity to be paid them.
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Too often the pressure for popularity, on children and teens, places an economic burden on the income of the father, so mother feels she must go to work to satisfy her children's needs. That decision can be most shortsighted.
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People never understood that there was Brian and The Boz. They were two completely different people.
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A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.
