Larry Wall Quotes
The way these things go, there are probably 6 or 8 kludgey ways to do it, and a better way that involves rethinking something that hasn't been rethunk yet.
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I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can surprise us how immediate or moving it is, when perhaps those feelings are just there, waiting to be accessed all the time.
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There are just so many young designers now.
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Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.
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Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps, the United Nations works tirelessly, around the clock around the world.
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My mother and my sister are big Jon Snow fans.
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Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision.
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I do what I feel is right. I am not scared to walk on the new path and take risk.
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As someone remarked, when told the new atomic bombs would explode without a bang, 'they can’t leave anything alone.'
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Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something which you have to be all the time. Which isn't easy.
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Hannah: Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
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I have been taking stock of my 50 years since I left Wichita. How I have existed fills me with horror for I failed in everything. Spelling, arithmetic, writing, swimming, tennis, golf, dancing, singing, acting, wife, mistress, whore, friend, even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of not trying. I tried with all my heart.
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Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.
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The Profit and Loss Statement tells you a lot about how your business is doing. It can also help you to determine ways that you can go about saving money so that you get to bring more money home! Basically, the P&L statement measures all of your income sources verses all your business expenses for any given period of time.
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There are works of fiction which seek to explain jihadi terrorists as the militant wing of Amnesty International. I don't buy that.
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'Roc The Life' is a song I wrote with The Dream, who made 'Umbrella,' 'Single Ladies' and loads more.
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I think sex is a very minor part of most romance novels.
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I remember I'd be sleeping in the airport at 5 o'clock in the morning, traveling three hours, and playing a game that day. We never even chartered until my third year in the NBA.
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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
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All things fall and are built again, And those that build them again are gay.
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When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain't to be played with. You've got people that lost their lives and people that are doing real time. If we gon' make music, let's just make music.
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I never read reviews of something I want to see.
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With 'Anna Karenina,' I just think it's a stunning visual tour de force for a director who is at the top of his game.
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I feel like I grew up in the investment business. My dad was at T. Rowe Price his whole career. We lived in Baltimore and had a small social circle, so most of my dad's friends also worked for T. Rowe.
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The way these things go, there are probably 6 or 8 kludgey ways to do it, and a better way that involves rethinking something that hasn't been rethunk yet.
