Larry Wall Quotes

(To the extent that anyone but a Prolog programmer can understand \X totally. (And to the extent that a Prolog programmer can understand 'cut'.)

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• I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • School
  • Small
  • Environment

• No, I never ever considered myself attractive.

  

  Lana Wood
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Ever

• Every day, you get up, and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.

  

  Abagail Johnson
  • Up
  • World
  • Trying

• I gotta be honest with you... I hate numbers. I hate chapter numbers. I hate them.

  

  Garth Stein
  • Hate
  • Numbers
  • Chapter

• I'm really not worried about what fans think.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Think
  • Fans
  • Really

• One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are - are - are living in - in very, very, very bad circumstances. They cannot practice religion freely. It is not the truth at all. The fact is, we are practicing. We fast, we pray, we do our prayers.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Truth
  • America

• You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Freedom
  • Fight

• I think the bait for doing something really is always the part.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Think
  • Always
  • Doing

• The definition of a musical is that the emotion is so strong that you can't talk anymore, you have to sing. The emotion isn't strong enough when you're just like, 'Let's take a second to sing about lamps!'

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Strong
  • Emotion
  • Talk

• I remember turning 'The Sopranos' on once and within two minutes nearly throwing a brick through the screen.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Remember
  • Once
  • Brick

• I recurred on 'Grey's Anatomy' for three years, and at the same time, I recurred for eight episodes on 'Rescue Me'. And I'd recurred for nine episodes on 'The Practice'. Frankly, the guest star is often the most compelling character.

  

  Kate Burton
  • Time
  • Character
  • Star

• Chris Hemsworth is like my bromance. Seriously, I think I really inherited one of my best friends now. He doesn't know this yet, but I'm going to stalk him if he doesn't.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Friends
  • Think
  • Best

• Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Biographies
  • Geniuses

• If she but smile, the crystal calm shall break In music, sweeter than it ever gave, As when a breeze breathes o'er some sleeping lake, And laughs in every wave.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Music
  • She
  • Smile

• Religions grow out of the deepest needs of individuals sharing a common awakening, and are not created by 'engineers of the soul.'

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Soul

• Climate change is an issue determining our destiny as mankind – it will determine the well-being of all of us.

  

  Angela Merkel
  • Destiny

• 'Out there, in the world, all the walls were covered with graffiti: 'Yids, go back to Palestine,' so we came back to Palestine, and now the worldatlarge sic shouts at us: 'Yids, get out of Palestine.''

  

  Amos Oz
  • World
  • Graffiti

• I find I go in airports anywhere in the country, and someone's always coming up to me and saying 'Hey, you're at my country club in Dubuque, right?' You know, because they kind of know my face, but they don't know why.

  

  Dylan Baker
  • Up
  • Country
  • Why

• Once you're dead, your worries are over.

  

  Dick Van Dyke

• Martina's gone with people who don't want to be out, and it drives her crazy because she'd rather be open.

  

  Billie Jean King
  • People
  • She
  • Crazy

• There's no white comic that sells tickets to black people like me. They're going to get their hair done, get a new outfit, and come out to see a white dude.

  

  Gary Owen
  • People
  • Done
  • Black

• Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Evil
  • Door
  • Open

• (To the extent that anyone but a Prolog programmer can understand \X totally. (And to the extent that a Prolog programmer can understand 'cut'.)

  

  Larry Wall